The Freedom Party's MEP Gerald Hauser sharply criticized the handling of the digital euro in the "Single Currency Package" in the Economic Committee this week. With the adoption of the report in the European Parliament on the digital euro by 43 votes in favor, 14 against, and one abstention, the next building block of a comprehensive digital control infrastructure has been politically set on track. "This is not a harmless payment project. It is the entry into a new system of controllable money. That is why we Patriots voted unanimously against it," said Hauser. He sharply criticized the mainstream parties for voting in favor of the digital euro.
"The European Parliament should not have accepted this negotiating position. This mandate should not be waved through but stopped!" Hauser declared. Anyone who approves this package opens the door to the gradual displacement of cash. The displacement of cash is also a significant security policy issue: "Even the Austrian National Bank recommends cash reserves for longer outages of electronic payment methods!" said the Freedom Party politician. "Furthermore, in Sweden, the brochure distributed to all households 'For Crisis or War' explicitly recommends keeping sufficient cash for at least a week in different denominations."
"Cash is not only freedom but also security!" Hauser emphasized. "Cash must be permanently protected: through a genuine obligation to accept cash, a right to pay in cash, a right to analog participation, and a clear ban on programmable or politically controllable money functions! Citizens do not need EU control money, no digital tutelage, and no further shift of power to central banks, authorities, and system elites," stated the Freedom Party MEP.
