Generation Euro Students Award 2023 QA ⑦

2023年5月31日にECB主催で開催された Generation Euro Students Award での、フランスチームからラガルド総裁への質問。
他チームからの質問は下記記事のいちばん下のリンクから辿れます。

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 フランスチームとの質疑応答は、動画の 24:50 ~ 26:05

Question

What do you think of the introduction of digital euro in the south of Europe?
And do you actually believe in it?

フランス出身、ポール君の質問

Answer

So it will not a substitute.
It will complement what available payment means we have.

It will not eliminate banknotes.
And I do believe that we must be ready to launch a digital Euro.
I think of it everything is digital, or DIGITAL as Germans often say.
Why not the currency?
Maybe we don’t know yet.
But I want us to be ready.
The PBOC in China is ready.
A few other national central banks that don’t communicate very much about it will soon be ready.
I want us to be ready.
I don’t want another central banks or a big Google of this world or Meta or anything say "You know what? I have a digital currency. Please get out of the way." It will be now Meta.
No. has to be ours.

Notes

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It will complement what available payment means we have.

文法の観点からは what はたぶん削除すべきで、It（Digital EURO）はavailable payment means（利用可能な支払い手段）をcomplement（補完）するだろう、という意味になる。

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I think of it everything is digital, or DIGITAL as Germans often say.

動画を見ると分かりますが「DIGITAL」の部分は「ディギタル」と発音しています。ドイツ訛り。

Words

PBOC
    People's Bank of China。中国人民銀行