Digital euro explained: Is the digital euro based on blockchain? The advent of digital crypto assets like Bitcoin (BTC) in 2008 and the underlying distributed ledger technology (DLT) has prompted ...

Most countries in the European Union use the euro as their currency, but a few countries have chosen to keep their own. Sweden is one of them — voters there rejected adopting the euro back in 2003.

June 2023 saw the euro area’s current account surplus leap to €36 billion, a stark rise from the €8 billion of the preceding month. This uptick resulted from surplus recordings in goods (€39 billion), ...