European Union News

The benefits associated with stablecoins pale in comparison to their risks and challenges, according to a new statement from EU authorities.

Bitcoin lacks the characteristics of a currency and is purely speculative, according to the European Central Bank’s former president Jean-Claude Trichet.

A draft document issued by the European Union suggests that the organization should consider issuing its own digital currency.

Five European Union member countries are purportedly creating a unified front against the issuance of Facebook’s proposed Libra stablecoin.

British Financial Conduct Authority granted a license under the European Benchmarks Regulation to CME Group’s Bitcoin index provider CF Benchmarks.

Financial services firm Standard Chartered completed its first joint blockchain-based supply chain financing transaction in cooperation with Linklogis.

About 71% of German citizens are skeptical towards Facebook’s Libra stablecoin, while only 12% welcome it.

In the premiere episode of the new Cointelegraph series “Coffee and Crypto,” Olivia Capozzalo and Molly Jane Zuckerman discussed the latest news in the crypto i...

Dutch ministers have called on the government to introduce new regulations on money laundering that would include cryptocurrency-related stipulations.

European Union banks may have an instantaneous payments system in place by 2020.

The German private banking association foresees that the need for new regulation may arise from the emergence of DLT-based securities.

Smart contracts indubitably fall subject to private international law, a professor of Private International Law at Germany’s Friedrich Schiller University has a...

The European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs is working on new crowdfunding regulations that could extend to some ICOs.

Ethereum is currently under consideration to help refugees as part of a $1 mln experiment by the European Union.

EU members are looking at a proposal which will enable them to stop account holders from withdrawing their own money, preventing bank runs.