Tags: Parliament

Kenya’s Capital Markets Bill Defining Crypto Assets as Securities Progresses in Parliament

European Parliament Supports DAC8 Crypto Tax Rule by an Overwhelming Margin

EU Commissioner Wants Digital Euro Project To Be Approached After Next European Commission In 2024

Russian Parliament Passes Vital “Digital Ruble” Legislation With Plans To Start Tests In August

Today in Crypto: EU Has Option to Deem All Crypto as Securities by Default, Georgia to Launch Mandatory Supervision of VASPs, Bitget is the ‘First Exchange‘ to Support an EVM-Compatible Address

The EU Parliament is wading into the digital euro debate. (Gerd Altmann/ Pixabay)

The ECB‘s Fabio Panetta at an event in Brussels (Jack Schickler/CoinDesk)

The EU voted on its crypto law MiCA. (Udo Pohlmann/Pixabay)

The European Parliament is set to vote on a new crypto law (Erich Westendarp/Pixabay

The European Parliament in Strasbourg, France (Udo Pohlmann/Pixabay)

The EU is set to vote on its landmark crypto law MiCA (Pixabay)

The bloc’s Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation brings in a new licensing regime, but has faced translation delays.

Johan Van Overtveldt, economic spokesperson for the right-wing ECR political party in the European Parliament, compared crypto to drugs.

Controversial lawmaker proposals on data use may no longer meet original objectives, Thierry Breton told reporters

The new law has attracted criticism for endangering the immutable nature of blockchain-based conditional programs

Germany’s Markus Ferber said there needs to be a review of interest rate and sovereign bond exposures.

Banks in the European Union would have to treat crypto as the riskiest kind of asset and disclose exposures while awaiting more detailed rules.