EU lawmakers adopt digital assets policy stance after MiCA transition ends
EU lawmakers approved a formal policy position on digital assets, focusing on what should happen after MiCA. The paper urges the European Commission to examine whether DeFi, crypto lending and borrowing, staking, and NFTs should be brought more clearly into EU regulation. It also calls for uniform MiCA enforcement across member states and warns that national rules could fragment the bloc’s crypto market. The vote does not change MiCA or create new obligations, but it signals pressure in Brussels to extend oversight beyond the framework’s current scope. MiCA’s transitional period ended July 1, so covered crypto service providers now need the required authorization to keep operating across the EU. The Parliament also expressed support for tokenization and euro-denominated stablecoins, arguing they could help EU financial competitiveness if regulated consistently.
