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Christine Lagarde has broadened the language of central banking beyond inflation and interest rates. Her vision reveals Europe’s deeper dilemma: a common currency cannot create economic scale, monetary sovereignty or integrated capital markets without corresponding political architecture.
Europe’s capital markets do not operate independently. Beneath every share, bond and investment fund lies a monetary system that prices risk, provides liquidity and settles transactions. The ECB guards the stability on which this emerging market architecture rests.
As payments become increasingly digital, Europe faces a fundamental question. How can citizens continue to access public money in an economy increasingly shaped by private platforms? The Digital Euro is ultimately less about technology than about preserving institutional trust.
