Defending The Union Through Digital Monetary Sovereignty: The Digital Euro as a Vehicle for Projecting the EU’s Monetary Order in an Era of Private Money

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This is a work-in-progress presentation by Jakub Suchnicki, PhD student at Edinburgh University School of Law.

This is part of the PhD work-in-progress seminar series, hosted by Edinburgh Commercial Law PGR Reading Group, which are designed to allow PGRs to communicate their research, share their research experiences, connect with other researchers, learn from one another, and receive feedback and questions from their peers and researchers. These sessions will allow members of the reading group and participants to learn about each other's research while also providing a comfortable and relaxing setting to strengthen their communication skills in research.

 

Abstract 

In this presentation, I propose a defence of the European Union’s monetary sovereignty through an interoperable digital euro. This can be done by "projecting" the Union's monetary order abroad along two tracks. One track is recognition‑based: foreign courts apply private international law and identify the euro ex post by reference to the Union’s lex monetae. The other is infrastructural and prospective: an interoperable digital euro would embed access rules, settlement logic, or even data privacy requirements into public‑money design that always “travels with” the instrument. By offering a credible public alternative to private money and setting ex ante standards for cross‑border use, the digital euro re‑anchors the euro as a digital unit of account, strengthens policy transmission capacities, and sets rules for other monetary game players.

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