https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/12/france_rejects_libra/

On Thursday Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency has received a Gallic dismissal courtesy of France's finance minister.

Speaking at the OECD Global Blockchain Policy Forum 2019, a virtual currency conference, Bruno Le Maire said Libra poses certain difficulties in terms of financial transactions and opined that thought needs to be given to creating a public digital currency.