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Blockchain Friendly Roberta Metsola Reelected as EU Parliament President

In 2018, as a member of the European Parliament for Malta, she called for regulation on crypto and blockchain when needed, without stifling innovation.

Roberta Metsola (Pier Marco Tacca/Getty Images)

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Crypto Remains Sidelined as EU Election Kicks Off

Voters will choose the more than 700 MEPs who may drive the next wave of regulation around crypto.

The EU's parliamentary elections start June 6. (Johannes Simon/Getty Images)

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EU Parliament Approves New Sanctions Laws That Also Apply to Crypto

The laws are to ensure sanctions rules are applied uniformly across the EU's 27 member states.

The EU has passed new crypto laws (Pixabay)

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Crypto Industry Cautiously Welcomes Agreement on New EU AML Rules

NFTs, DeFi and outlawing privacy tools might be out, but for crypto firms, requirements for customer checks might be more stringent than for banks, policy watchers told CoinDesk.

European Parliament (Frederic Köberl/ Unsplash)

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EU Provisionally Agrees Tough Crypto Due Diligence Measures to Combat Money Laundering

Crypto firms have to do checks on transactions of 1,000 euro or more, and the framework adds measures to mitigate risks in transfers with self-hosted wallets.

The EU has passed new crypto laws (Pixabay)

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EU Parliament Approves Data Act With Smart-Contract Kill Switch Provision

The final version of the bill's text, reviewed by CoinDesk in July, revealed that it contained a smart-contract kill switch clause.

European regulators will focus more on banks' exposure to crypto-linked entities. (Christian Lue/Unsplash)

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EU's Data Act Final Draft Still Contains Controversial Smart Contract Kill Switch

Lawmakers appear to have largely ignored pleas from organizations linked to Polygon, NEAR and Cardano about the clause, according to a final version of the text seen by CoinDesk

The EU's Data Act regulates smart contracts (Pixabay)

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EU Commission Brushes Off 'Data Act' Fears by Crypto Industry

New rules could kill off permissionless smart contracts, the industry worries.

The EU Data Act has raised smart contract fears (Pixabay)

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Treat Crypto as Securities by Default, European Parliament Study Says

Landmark new crypto laws under MiCA may have few short-term benefits without further steps, the report commissioned by EU lawmakers says.

(Guillaume Périgois/Unsplash)

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Digital Euro Holdings Shouldn't Be Capped, Study Says

The research, commissioned by the European Parliament, counters an argument that the currency should be used only for daily transactions, not as a source of savings.

Euros (Gerd Altmann/ Pixabay)

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