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Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
(europeanbusinessmagazine.com)
Hope they don't just end up recreating their own version of it
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2026
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Fucking MAGA and Russia are fusing the European Union. Good! As an EU citizen I fully support this type of progress.
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Europe’s $24 Trillion
Great, now nobody knows how much that is (other than a lot).
How to make this competitive vs. current, American owned networks?
Put a microtax in every financial transaction going out of the EU.
Good. I don't want those two fucking corporate assholes telling anyone where they should spend their money on and banning or restricting accounts of any NSFW artist out there while their owners are all over the Epstein files.
From what I've read, it appears that it's simply one time, transactions.
Surely, they couldn't be that short sighted. This means no "saving for payment information" on your favorite online store.
Also, it seems this is heavily tied to your bank account, which kind of makes me a bit nervous. I like fintech solutions and being able to create "one time use debit cards" or debit cards with a maximum balance and at the moment, I don't understand how wero will fill this gap.
... but I really hope I'm wrong or some fintech will "step up" and make wero a legitimate replacement for visa/master card.
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Good. I hate Visa and MC