Italy’s Banks Embrace the Digital Euro with Fawning Elegance and Calculated Caution
On the auspicious date of November 8, 2025, gazing down from the grandeur of Florence, the Italian Banking Association (ABI)-under the genteel supervision of their General Manager, the ever-charismatic Marco Elio Rottigni-cast their lot in louche support for the European Central Bank’s (ECB) digital euro venture. ❄️ An ardent soliloquy relayed through the ethereal medium of a press seminar laid bare the exorbitant nature of the costs, advocating not a forfeiture to immediacy but a period of repose, spreading them with the delicacy of one arranging petals for a Sunday brunch. Following the ECB’s high-minded Governing Council gathering between the 29th and 30th of October, it was decreed a pilot should commence in 2027 and a grand unveiling might unfold in 2029, should the European Parliament agree to the proceedingsa ceremonial teetering on the brink of legislative approval expected in 2026.


