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Italian small-business associations are demanding a blanket fee waiver on digital euro transactions below EUR 10, a threshold rule that has not yet been settled even though the European Commission and the ECB have proposed that core services — account opening, top-ups, transfers and payments — stay free for consumers, with merchant fees capped no higher than comparable instruments such as debit cards or instant transfers. The transmission channel runs through European payments economics: a hard cap tied to debit and instant-transfer pricing compresses interchange and acquiring revenue for card networks and bank payment divisions, while a low-cost public rail narrows the cost advantage that euro stablecoins and private payment tokens have marketed in retail use cases. Watch the final legislative text for whether the sub-EUR 10 exemption is written in and how merchant fee caps are calculated, since that pricing floor determines how much retail payment volume the digital euro can pull away from card and stablecoin rails.
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