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 The country's government plans to accelerate the development of a European blockchain infrastructure during its presidency of the EU Council.
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 Belgium plans to accelerate the development of a European blockchain infrastructure during its presidency of the EU Council in early 2024, according to the goveernm. The proposal aims to facilitate the secure storage of official documents like driving licenses and property titles.&nbsp;
 The development of public <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="blockchain" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/blockchain.html">blockchain</a> for the pan-EU <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="infrastructure" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/infrastructure.html">infrastructure</a> is among the four priorities of Belgium’s upcoming presidency, the country's secretary of state for digitization, Mathieu Michel, told&nbsp;the Science|Business media on Nov. 21. The remaining three initiatives will take on the matters of artificial intelligence (AI), online anonymity and the skills, necessary for the digital economy.
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 Michel suggests rebooting the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI) <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="project" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/project.html">project</a>, set up back in 2018, in collaboration with the European Blockchain partnership, made up of the 27 EU member states plus Norway and Liechtenstein:
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 “That is a technical project. If we want to build a common infrastructure, it has to become a European project and a political project.”&nbsp;
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 The renewed EBSI would be renamed Europeum and used for public administration tasks, such as verifying driver’s licenses and other documents across the EU. According to Michel, the <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="project" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/project.html">project</a> could also support the digital euro <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="infrastructure" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/infrastructure.html">infrastructure</a>.&nbsp;
 The official said it would be important to use the public blockchain, developed by the EU member-states, and not the private alternatives:
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 “In terms of security, transparency, and privacy, the blockchain can give control back to the citizen of the data that belongs to them.”&nbsp;
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 At the moment, Italy, Croatia, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Luxembourg, and Romania have already signed up for the Europeum plan. The head office of the project will be in Belgium.&nbsp;
 The process of regulatory consolidation around crypto and <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="blockchain" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/blockchain.html">blockchain</a> is moving steadily. In early November, just under 50 national governments issued a joint pledge to “swiftly transpose” the Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF), a new international standard on automatic exchange of information between tax authorities, into their domestic law systems.
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Belgium seeks to reboot the EU blockchain infrastructure project

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