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ECB President Christine Lagarde intervened to block Binance’s EU MiCA license: WSJ
What CoinDesk reports, why it matters and what remains unconfirmed.
PolicyBy Olivier Acuna at CoinDesk

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What CoinDesk reports
Although the ECB holds no formal licensing authority under MiCA, high-level intervention led Greece to stall an application that regulators had previously deemed complete, the Journal said.
The immediate significance
The report identifies a policy development, but the available information does not provide enough matched evidence for a more specific impact judgment. That assessment remains open.
What remains unknown
- No matched primary document independently supporting the central claim is linked to this page.
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