EU Lawmakers Attack Amazon’s Involvement in Digital Euro Project

“We know that the reputation of Amazon in terms of social and tax policy is questionable, I have to say,” said center-left lawmaker Eero Heinäluoma, citing a record-breaking fine of 746 million euros ($720 million) the company received from data protection regulators last year for allegedly breaching privacy rules, a decision that the company has since appealed. “What does Amazon have that could not be found in the European Union?”