Fernando Navarrete Rojas
Spanish MEP serving as the European Parliament's digital-euro rapporteur.
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Background
Fernando Navarrete Rojas said the Digital Euro would complement cash and rejected surveillance concerns as the European Parliament's Strasbourg plenary backed the digital-euro negotiating mandate 416-169 on 9 July, after ECR, Patriots for Europe and Europe of Sovereign Nations forced the vote onto the floor .
Navarrete is a Spanish member of the European Parliament sitting with the centre-right European People's Party (EPP) group. He serves as the Parliament's rapporteur on the digital-euro file within the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee (ECON), the role that put him at the centre of steering the legislation through committee and defending it against the procedural challenge that forced the plenary vote.
His public defence of the mandate, that a Digital Euro would sit alongside physical cash rather than replace or track it, is the argument the pro-mandate majority is likely to keep making as the file now moves into trilogue negotiations with the Council.
