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What changed between the plenary report and the adopted text
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Adds a solidarity statement with the US Federal Reserve and a concern about high living costs.34 Tightens the ECB's climate mandate to price stability only and adjusts market neutrality language.56 Expands the digital euro section, emphasizing inclusion and EU sovereignty.7 The other changes are formal: punctuation and decimal separators.12
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Part 2 of 3: Paragraphs 61–76
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27. Welcomes the ongoing short-term (Pontes) and long-term (Appia) tracks for distributed ledger technology projects for wholesale central bank money settlement;
28. Stresses the importance of maintaining the role of cash; takes note of the ongoing discussions on the proposal on the legal tender;
29. Calls on the ECB to intensify the monitoring of crypto-assets, such as stablecoins;
30. Supports the ECB in its efforts to accommodate the international role of the euro through, inter alia, sufficient currency swap and repo lines;
31. Welcomes the Republic of Bulgaria as the 21st member of the euro area, as of 1 January 2026;
32. Expresses concern about the temporary outage of the ECB’s real-time gross settlement system T2 and T2S in February 2025; invites the ECB to closely monitor and ensure the proper functioning of the settlement systems;
33. Expresses its concern at the consecutive losses made by the ECB in 2023 and 2024 due to interest rate risk; notes that these losses have not compromised the operational capacity of the Eurosystem to implement its monetary policy;
34. Supports the ECB’s role in promoting financial stability within the single supervisory mechanism and the ECB’s function as lender of last resort to solvent institutions, against good collateral and at penalty rates, to safeguard liquidity and trust during crises;
35. Supports the ECB in its efforts to improve financial literacy in the EU;
36. Welcomes the ECB’s commitment to simplification efforts, such as with the creation of the ECB High-Level Task Force on Simplification; points to the need for a high degree of ambition in the work and the follow-up of the task force and welcomes the ECB’s in-depth discussions with Parliament;
37. Calls on the ECB to foster open and constructive internal dialogue; calls for the further enhancement of staff representation frameworks and the ECB’s internal whistleblowing framework;
38. Reiterates that the nominations to the ECB’s Executive Board should be gender-balanced, merit and ability-based, with shortlists submitted to Parliament, and that people of all genders should have equal opportunities to serve as governors of their respective national central banks;
39. Invites the ESCB to continue and strengthen its dialogues with national parliaments, which it believes would strengthen the legitimacy and policies of the ESCB;
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40. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council and the Commission.