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Austrian leader backs far-right idea of enshrining cash in constitution (www.euractiv.com)
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Austria’s conservative Chancellor Karl Nehammer wants the right to use cash enshrined in the constitution, he told Austrian media in remarks published on Friday (4 August), an idea the far-right Freedom Party has been pushing for years.

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[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The far anything can go screw itself, but we definitely need to hold on to physical currency.

[–] bossito@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Exactly. I was in Sweden recently and it's opressive how difficult it is to use cash. For everything it's only card or apps, I didn't even bother to get any local cash. But I had a few SEK from years ago and I couldn't use them.

In Portugal is not on the constitution but it's law, a business cannot force the client to pay by other means if the client has enough cash to make the payment for payments under 3000€ (above this you actually can't pay cash by the same law :P).