Policy Brief: The closing window for financial sovereignty
Europe holds nearly everything it needs to compete in the next phase of digital finance. What has been missing is not capability, but action. Our latest policy brief, Making Euro(pe) Competitive: the closing window for financial sovereignty, sets out a concrete plan for how Europe can compete on its own terms. Alongside it, we are […]
European Financial Sovereignty: Insights from Frankfurt’s Roundtable
Last week in Frankfurt, we convened our second closed roundtable on European Financial Sovereignty. Central bankers, market infrastructure incumbents, regulators, public chain foundations, and academics gathered to pressure-test the argument in our forthcoming brief, Making Euro(pe) Competitive. The brief’s thesis is that sovereignty is a property of infrastructure rather than of instruments, and that Europe […]
Position Paper: Rebalancing Digital Power in Finance
On 4 December 2025, the European Commission presented its Market Integration Package for EU financial markets. At the European Decentralisation Institute, we see this as a real step forward. The package:🔹 Treats distributed ledger technology as core market infrastructure, not a side experiment🔹 Scales up the DLT Pilot so tokenisation can reach meaningful size🔹 Moves […]
