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[–] 10 points 1 month ago (1 child)

If this is what it takes to make visa and Mastercard optional when travelling throughout Europe and to Canada, that would be excellent.

Should brexit be left as Brexit though?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I was hoping this was hoping this was an article about extending Interac to Europe.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    What are the odds Canada joins the EU before the UK rejoins?

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    [–] 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    The U.S.’s power over international payments was demonstrated in 2025 when Mr. Trump imposed sanctions on Winnipeg-born International Criminal Court judge Kimberly Prost over her work on a case involving American troops in Afghanistan. The U.S. sanctions left Ms. Prost unable to use most credit cards or multinational services such as Amazon or airlines.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Don't worry, I'm sure the one we come up with will allow exactly the same thing or worse, but "we'll" be the ones deciding who to blacklist 😛

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    That is unironically an improvement.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Absolutely it is, today. But maybe not in the future, and maybe not even that far into the future. As much as people love to trot out the "US has always been bad" line, in 2008 no one in Canada or Europe was worried about US financial control.

    It just takes one bad election in Canada, France, or especially Germany, for an EU-linked payment network to oopsie poopsie become just as bad if the technical capability for bad is included.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Can we just get credit cards that are not American?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Visa and Mastercard etc are essentially middlemen, huge corporations providing the intermediary step between your bank account, and someone elses bank account. If I have understood what the EU is trying to do, it's not to have our own huge corporation middleman, but to make the direct connection between you and someone else possible, without the huge corporation, across the EU and instantaneous. Maybe there will be plastic cards, maybe not, that part is just authentication.

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    [–] 16 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    And so it begins...

    plan to announce a deal between competition watchdogs in the EU and Canada “to effectively address anti-competitive conduct”

    launch negotiations toward participation in Erasmus+

    Align the rules, align education and recognize each other's qualification and then remove blockades to enable free flow of services and people.

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  • [+] -9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    It will be easier than ever to buy products from Israel and illegal settlements. Go team Canada & EU.

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