Discussions in Brussels about limiting cash payments across all European Union member states represent one of the most serious threats to financial freedom in modern European history. Marketed as a technical tool to fight tax evasion and crime, this initiative masks a far deeper shift: the removal of citizens' direct control over their own money.

Cash is the last form of true economic freedom. Physical money cannot be frozen with a keystroke, conditioned, tracked, or restricted in real time. This is precisely why limiting or eliminating cash is not about efficiency, but about power. A cashless economy is one where every transaction is visible, traceable, and ultimately controllable by central authorities.

Supporters claim the measure targets money laundering. This argument is deeply misleading. Large-scale financial crime does not rely on cash, but on complex digital systems, offshore structures, and banking loopholes. Limiting cash does not hurt organized crime - it targets ordinary citizens, small businesses, vulnerable groups, and anyone unwilling or unable to rely entirely on digital systems.

Even more concerning, removing cash builds the perfect infrastructure for economic control and political coercion. When all money is digital, access can be conditioned: by compliance, by status, by shifting rules. Accounts can be frozen, payments denied, spending restricted - not through public debate, but via administrative decisions or algorithms.

History shows that concentrated power is never left unused. Systems introduced for "security" and "transparency" are easily expanded into tools of punishment, pressure, and exclusion. Once cash is gone, citizens have no fallback. Dependency becomes absolute.

Cash limits are not an isolated measure. They are the natural counterpart to Digital ID and the forced digitalization of the citizen-state relationship. Digital identity, digital money, digital access - all governed by the same centralized structures. This is not progress. It is the normalization of economic surveillance.

A free society does not eliminate cash. It defends it. Because where cash disappears, the freedom to choose disappears with it.