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The directly elected chamber that legislates alongside the Council of the European Union, and whose economic affairs committee adopted its digital euro position on 23 June 2026, giving the Commission rather than the European Central Bank the power to set holding limits.
The directly elected chamber that acts with the Council of the European Union as co-legislator under the ordinary legislative procedure, handling financial files through its Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. That committee adopted its position on the digital euro regulation (2023/0212(COD)) on 23 June 2026, more than six months after the Council agreed its own negotiating stance in December 2025; the committee text distinguishes an offline version with stronger privacy from the online one and would give the Commission rather than the European Central Bank the power to set holding limits, which were still undetermined at that point. Because the holding limit governs how much retail deposit money could migrate to a central bank liability, the Parliament and Council jointly decide the digital euro's effect on commercial bank funding and on the room left for euro stablecoins; a plenary position was expected in early July 2026 and negotiators were targeting agreement before the end of the year, with issuance envisaged by 2029.
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The European Parliament approved its position on the digital euro regulation on 9 July 2026, following a committee vote in June. Trilogue negotiations with the Council and Commission were expected to begin by the end of July, with the aim of concluding the…
The Council gave final adoption to MiCA, described by the Council as the last step in the legislative process following the provisional agreement of 30 June 2022. The regulation covers utility tokens, asset-referenced tokens and e-money tokens, and the trading venues and wallet providers that serve them.
The Council presidency and European Parliament negotiators agreed a provisional text of MiCA, covering issuers of asset-referenced and e-money tokens and crypto-asset service providers. The text required stablecoin issuers to hold a liquid reserve at a 1:1 ratio, set a three-month deadline for national authorities to decide on authorisation applications, and gave ESMA a register of non-compliant operators.
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