So good Russia had to go to war to get Ukrainians to agree!
They're required to make a copy to safeguard the data and prevent it from being wiped, but that doesn't actually mean the request will be honoured and data will be shared. Thus far, police have said no data has actually been transferred pending the review of the request.
They haven't actually shared anything yet, afaik. When the request comes in the authorities have basically no wiggle room regarding safeguarding the data, but it is only shared once the request is approved as legal.
In plenty of countries carrying knives in public is not allowed. You can own one for use in your home or work but don't brandish it out in the open.
The reason few people know this is because it's rarely ever needed, and the people violating that law are generally the people you want arrested anyway (e.g. because they're trying to stab someone).
A true genius that one.
They're different products, Wero offers features Bizum does not. Ultimately Wero is a product banks can make more money off of so they're likely to invest eventually. But atm Wero is unproven in the actual market, so it remains to be seen how well it will catch on. That's why these banks don't want to make the switch immediately, and prefer this expansion route first. If the consumer demand is there, the banks will follow.
That linkdash article is about how they intend to extend local payment methods and make them cross-border. From my understanding, this will exist alongside Wero, using its infrastructure, but it doesn't mean that it's not coming itself.
Exact arrival times on Wero in other countries aren't known yet (I don't know them either) but it is in the pipeline. The idea is to start with a smaller core of countries first (born out of the very successful Dutch iDEAL), and from the lessons learned and how it catches on they will determine when it expands further.
I have my info from confidential documents relating to my job that I can't share I'm afraid.
For me it's already set to that. Did you mean the auth version or not?
Wero is more like an alternative to Paypal. The Digital Euro is more akin to replacing VISA/Mastercard.
That's the current state of the rollout. Wero is poised to expand to the rest of Europe as well. Source: my job.
"May have existed"?
Molotov himself inadvertently implied their existence numerous times in his conversations with Chuev (Molotov Remembers; Molotov-Chuev interviews between 1970-1986, published 1993).
Khrushchev acknowledged their existence in his memoirs, which nobody disputes the provenance of, and which were published in the West in the 1970s.
The CPSU itself acknowledged their existence at the end of 1989, and published their copy of the text in their official journal.
The literal Soviet documents, held by the General Department of the CPSU Central Committee, were located after the archives were declassified in 1992, and have since been published widely.
No party seems to dispute the existence of the secret protocols. If you have a single credible source that does, feel free to cite them.