Legal tender status “would imply a legal obligation for (certain) payees to accept payments in digital euro … thereby increasing its network effects, and potentially affecting its distribution,” said the document, drafted by the secretariat of the Eurogroup, which brings together finance ministers from the 20-nation currency area, ahead of a monthly meeting
Source: https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/03/13/eu-merchants-could-be-required-to-accept-digital-euro-ministers-told/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines