"The design of the digital euro includes an offline functionality that would offer users a cash-like level of privacy, both for person-to-person payments and payments in physical shops. "

Ironically they might end up releasing something with significantly better privacy than Visa and Mastercard. Of course, that's a really low bar...

the vast majority of eurozone Europeans will wake up one morning and be faced with a fait accompli. there is really no enthusiasm to be seen here for a solution like Bitcoin. The majority of Europeans are and will remain socialist and they will gratefully accept their masters' new set of rules

Europeans - get ready to not be able to buy bitcoin with the digital euro. These fully permissioned cbdcs will not let you buy everything your heart desires.

i think that The public consider privacy and data protection to be two of the most important design elements of a digital euro, which is why the Eurosystem has prioritised,

Total control is coming.