A new survey showed that about 60% of Europeans would prefer their own countries to be in charge of regulating digital assets, not the European Union.
The survey covered 31,000 participants and 12 EU countries. About 25% of them declared that the EU should be the one in charge.
Respondents from the Netherlands and Estonia have shown the biggest support for their governments, with 76%, and 70%, respectively. On the opposite side are Spain, Poland, and Latvia, with numbers around 50%.
Spain is also the biggest supporter of the EU of the group as 36% of the respondents declared that they would want the EU to be in charge of crypto regulations.
Countries like Italy, Greece, and Estonia have also indicated that creating national digital currencies would be a good way for them to have monetary independence from the EU, while on the opposite side we have the Netherlands.
A Research Officer at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies in Brussels, Dimitar Lilkov, declared:
“For a country like Greece or the Netherlands to opt for a national digital currency different from the euro (a hypothetical e-drachma or e-Guilder), this would mean seceding from the Eurozone. This will not happen.”
Source: CryptoPotato.com