Monetary policy can reduce or worsen inequality. But rising inequality also threatens the transmission of monetary policy, and accordingly, central banks.

Shifting power from big banks to people. We collaborate with policymakers, the public and economists around the world so we can redesign our economic system for a better world and a healthy planet.

Shifting power from big banks to people. We collaborate with policymakers, the public and economists around the world so we can redesign our economic system for a better world and a healthy planet.

The European Central Bank (ECB) recognizes that biodiversity loss and ecosystem breakdown have disastrous consequences for price and financial stability.

Rising extreme weather costs fuel campaign ahead of new resilience strategy

Shifting power from big banks to people. We collaborate with policymakers, the public and economists around the world so we can redesign our economic system for a better world and a healthy planet.

Positive Money Europe's 2026 summer list: books, films and podcasts on money, energy politics, and climate change.

Global food prices are expected to increase by double digits in 2026 as Russia's escalating war in Ukraine worsens the impact of other food price shocks, according to Oxford Economics. Wheat is expect...

Shifting power from big banks to people. We collaborate with policymakers, the public and economists around the world so we can redesign our economic system for a better world and a healthy planet.

Notre souveraineté dépend désormais de la capacité à faire de la monnaie commune un instrument de puissance géopolitique.

Exclusive: As wildfires rage across Europe, Frank Elderson tells the Guardian nature loss poses a growing risk to the global economy

As the digital euro enters trilogue talks, we debunk 4 persistent myths - from privacy fears to claims it will destabilise banks and replace cash.

La banque centrale chinoise garantit un taux de financement bas aux investissements verts. Son homologue européenne, pourtant à la pointe sur le changement climatique, refuse pour l’instant d’utiliser...

Positive Money Europe's 2026 summer list: books, films and podcasts on money, energy politics, and climate change.

In an air-conditioned Luxembourg meeting, ministers call for a ‘business case’ for coping with the world’s fastest-warming continent

In 2026, a woman worker in average working in the EU still earns 11.1 percent less her male counterpart. Not because she works less, or contributes less, but because the system has been carefully desi...

See what Positive Money Europe achieved in 2025 - from digital euro advocacy to ECB reform.

The EU Parliament’s ECON Committee has backed its position on the digital euro, a CBDC designed to serve everyday citizens. Learn more

Our EU journalist Emilie Vanderhulst is hosting a new EU economic podcast episode. Laura Casonato et Veronica Calienno, Policy Offircers with Positive Money Europe, came all the way to our radio studi

The ECB is raising rates to fight energy-driven inflation. We explain why it's the wrong tool - and what should happen instead.

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said that governments might be inclined to tighten their grip on monetary authorities and stressed that upholding central-bank independence is even mo...

The ECB’s revised green operational framework won’t be enough to finance the transition, says report from Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union and Positive Money Europe.

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The ECB’s revised green operational framework won’t be enough to finance the transition, says report from Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union and Positive Money Europe.

Discover how the ECB can supercharge the climate transition by turning its new monetary framework into an engine for green investment.

Arriva un nuovo circuito di pagamento per la moneta pubblica digitale a corso legale (oggi lo è solo il contante), e si affiancherà a quelli &quo…

More UK high street shops are turning cashless.

Spain and Portugal today are 53-percent less exposed to gas prices than three years ago, driven in large part by a 74 percent surge in solar capacity that now contributes roughly a fifth of total gene...

Spain and Portugal today are 53-percent less exposed to gas prices than three years ago, driven in large part by a 74 percent surge in solar capacity that now contributes roughly a fifth of total generation - equalling gas.

War in the Middle East has put pressure on the ECB to raise interest rates, but experts say this will increase the cost of the green transition.