A continent in conversation.
Europe
European institutions, economies and society
The Eurosystem opened Pontes for wholesale tokenised-asset settlement on 21 September 2026, and the ECB said it will prepare own-funds investments using that link. The immediate change is operational infrastructure, not proof of market adoption or a completed ECB buying programme.
The September provisional measures include processed cores, including those already incorporated in transformers. Their scope matters to the industrial case being made.
Eurostat’s second-quarter figures describe two nested shares. Reading the denominator explains how solar can gain ground while renewables’ overall share barely changes.
The policy change took effect on September 16. Inflation projections and the financing costs faced by individual households answer different questions.
