This will give EU finance ministers a say on whether a digital currency is issued and how many such euros each resident will be able to hold, which is seen as crucial for assuaging fears of a run on bank deposits.

I mean, I would love to close my bank account and stop giving those blood sucking ghouls fees for the privilege of them holding my money.

We should not be afraid of bank deposits going away. The fact that we have to use private companies to work with money now is a failure of our governments.

GNU Taler and the digital Euro are not the same and are not related. But GNU Taler is a great project in itself.