Financial sovereignty, digital euro and payment roaming: the EU seeks alternatives to US cards.
13 August 2026
Europe spends billions of euros every year on card payments, almost all of them processed outside European systems.
EU leaders now see this dependence as a risk that Europe can no longer ignore, given the possibility that this infrastructure could be turned into a geopolitical weapon.
EU leaders now see this dependence as a risk that Europe can no longer ignore, given the possibility that this infrastructure could be turned into a geopolitical weapon.