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Cash Payments

Everyday shoppers use cash while one oversized bundle of banknotes is stopped at a distant yellow threshold gate.
The EU rule caps certain large cash payments; it does not ban ordinary cash.Illustration: Nowpinion / OpenAIAI-generated editorial illustration created by Nowpinion with OpenAI; it is illustrative and is not documentary evidence.

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The EU Is Not Banning Cash

A €10,000 ceiling on large business cash payments is not the abolition of banknotes. The viral version deletes the scope, the exemptions and the meaning of legal tender.