2028: I purchase chocolate not intended for me. My aunt makes a booking that was never meant for her. The wine I drink is charged to my neighbour’s account, since I had already exceeded my digital spending limit in June. This is how I envision life under the digital euro. A courteous form of disenfranchisement and an instrument of totalitarian control. With it, the ECB equips itself with a mechanism of self-preservation, cementing its continued existence under immunity from c

On February 14, 2025, US Vice President JD Vance used the 61st Munich Security Conference (MSC) – an event from which populist left- and right-wing parties were excluded – to address Europe's departure from certain democratic principles. His speech met with little approval in the hall, and the majority of leading media outlets in Europe reacted with open rejection. This is hardly surprising, since attempts are being made to publicly sell precisely those issues that deeply aff