{"id":120164,"date":"2025-05-21T15:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T15:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/120164\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T15:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T15:52:08","slug":"keep-some-cash-under-your-mattress-says-dutch-central-bank-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/120164\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep some cash under your mattress, says Dutch central bank \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April, a power blackout in Spain and Portugal caused severe but ultimately short-lived <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/power-blackout-spain-portugal-card-users-pos-atms-hospitals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">problems<\/a> with payments systems.<\/p>\n<p>The cash that\u2019s set aside should be enough to cover \u201cthe minimum necessary expenses for a period of three days, such as for water, food, medicine, and transportation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch central bank also had some advice for merchants: They should have alternative payment systems in place, like scannable QR codes, in case point-of-sale terminals don\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p>In March, the European Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/europe-crisis-stockpile-supplies-war-disease-natural-disaster-roxana-minzatu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published<\/a> a preparedness plan that recommended citizens stock three days\u2019 worth of food to ensure supplies in case of emergencies like war or natural disasters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In April, a power blackout in Spain and Portugal caused severe but ultimately short-lived problems with payments systems.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[331,51,6725,3378,1700,5769,11052,3209,3046,104,3053,16,15,771,6507],"class_list":{"0":"post-120164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-banks","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-central-banks","11":"tag-currency","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-medicines","14":"tag-natural-disasters","15":"tag-payments","16":"tag-portugal","17":"tag-spain","18":"tag-the-netherlands","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-war","22":"tag-water"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}