A sitting European official has just declared that anyone who opposes the digital euro is “going against Europe, the euro, and democracy”. This type of rhetoric is precisely why public trust in monetary authorities is collapsing.
Money in a free society is not a tool for political allegiance. It is not a loyalty test. It is not a mechanism for enforcing compliance.
Money is a public good whose legitimacy depends entirely on trust, predictability, and freedom of choice.
To suggest that questioning a centrally controlled digital currency is un-European or anti-democratic is a complete misunderstanding of what democracy actually requires.
Here are the facts.
1. Democracy is built on scrutiny, not obedience.
Healthy democracies encourage debate, challenge, and rigorous examination of the institutions that govern them.
When policymakers frame dissent as disloyalty, that is not democracy.
It is central planning disguised as virtue.
2. A digital euro would give governments programmable control over citizens’ spending.
Even the ECB has acknowledged that CBDCs can technically allow:
• spending limits
• expirations
• transaction blocking
• automated tax collection
• real-time surveillance of economic behaviour
Citizens have every right to question this.
Calling them enemies of Europe for doing so is absurd.
3. The cost-of-living crisis did not appear by accident.
It is the result of a decade of monetary distortion:
• money printing
• negative interest rates
• artificially inflated asset prices
• currency debasement
• suppressed real wages
People are not struggling because they lack a digital euro.
They are struggling because the current system destroyed the purchasing power of the euro they already hold.
4. Hard money principles produce prosperity.
When money cannot be debased, people can finally plan long term.
They can save.
They can invest productively.
They can focus on value creation rather than speculation.
This is why civilisations flourished under sound money standards. Productivity increased. Innovation surged. One salary supported a family.
Not because the state controlled money, but because the state could not manipulate it at will.
5. Opposing a CBDC does not make you anti-European.
It makes you pro-freedom.
It makes you pro-privacy.
It makes you pro-choice in monetary tools.
And it makes you pro-transparency, because people deserve a money that cannot be quietly diluted behind closed doors.
Europe succeeds when its people thrive.
Its people thrive when their money holds value.
And value is preserved only when money is independent from political expediency.
If defending financial freedom is now considered “going against Europe”, then perhaps the problem is not the citizens asking the questions, but the institutions that fear the answers.
Bitcoin offers an alternative grounded in mathematics, transparency, scarcity, and personal sovereignty.
It offers Europeans something the digital euro never can:
a money that serves the people, rather than governing them.
Freedom is not granted by institutions.
It is protected by refusing to surrender control of the very tool that underpins every aspect of modern life: money.
