Comment by crote
2 months ago
> Besides that, 39% of online purchases in Germany are made through PayPal or MC/Visa.
This is currently being solved with Wero, which is intended to be an EU-wide online payment platform which can replace PayPal/MC/Visa, and a bunch of national payment systems.
Antagonizing it's allies is having exactly the effect on US soft power as expected.
Wero is just a layer on top of the already working SEPA.
(And a layer that is potentially worse than Visa / MasterCard, as long as it's only implemented on Google / Apple smartphones.)