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"Christine Lagarde, the President of the European Central Bank, has said, "We need to prepare our currency for the future" and further elaborated that the "[ECB] envisages a digital euro as a digital form of cash that can be used for all digital payments, free of charge, and that meets the highest privacy standards."

Highest privacy standards LOL.
So it gets introduced into Europe later this year and if you want to buy PMs Gold , Silver or whatever of real value they will now know what you bought and how much you have.
If you have too much they can come knocking on your door and confiscate your stack for some yet to be named reason.
Who's to say what they'll do, with the direction they've been heading in Europe most of whom are disarmed and neutered as we in Australia are.