Foreign Affairs

They aren't trying to completely ban Windows (Visa) or macOS (Mastercard) from the continent. They've just looked at how heavily dependent they are on proprietary American ecosystems, panicked about their digital sovereignty, and decided to fund a stable, community-backed, open-source alternative.

Think of the digital euro as the financial distro built for people who want strong privacy, no tracking, and to know their system won't randomly update or lock them out at midnight.