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Mikołaj Barczentewicz is a senior scholar with ICLE, a senior lecturer in law and the research director of the Law and Technology Hub at the University of Surrey.

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Why the EU’s Rushed ‘Travel Rule’ for Crypto Should Be Struck Down

Mikołaj Barczentewicz July 25, 2022

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We appear to be reaching an end stage in negotiations between the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union on a plan to extend the EU’s financial-surveillance regime over the cryptocurrency industry. Alas, lawmakers were in such a rush that they appear not to have noticed that the hastily crafted legislative package violates fundamental tenets of the EU’s founding treaties.

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