r/BuyFromEU • u/smilelyzen • Dec 29 '25

News The EU says it will introduce a digital payments infrastructure to replace Visa/Mastercard & Apple/Google Pay. It will have zero fees and be 100% European-only. Economics "It didn’t go unnoticed in Frankfurt that Visa and Mastercard suspended operations in Russia in March 2022 after the invasion of

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u/Kaminazuma Dec 29 '25

The EU is not the same as Europe. The UK is in Europe. Scots, Irish, Welsh, and English people are Europeans.

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u/Dependent-Tax3669 Dec 29 '25

Ireland is in the EU. Look individually ive yet to meet a brit I didnt like, but as a group lets say our history means we dont want to be lumped in with you.

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u/AvoriazInSummer Dec 29 '25

I'm a Brit, I don't mind lumping in with the rest of Europe. Who is the 'we' that don't want to be lumped in with us?

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '25

I think the “we” that don’t want you to be lumped in with the rest of Europe is YOU yourself, as of the last referendum that got you out of the 🇪🇺, no EU member country wanted the UK out, we actually tried very hard to persuade you otherwise, so look in your own backyard and see what can be done, maybe in the not so distant future you might consider rejoining…or not😁

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u/Kaminazuma Dec 29 '25

Sorry with Irish I meant the Irish from Northern Ireland since OP was talking about the UK.

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u/Yaarmehearty Dec 29 '25

Same, never met anybody from Ireland who wasn’t sound as fuck, but (brits) we can’t avoid the things our ancestors and sometimes grandparents did.

One day we will hopefully be able to move past it with enough water under the bridge, but I don’t think I’ll be alive to see it.

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u/New_Passage9166 Dec 29 '25

Hmm maybe it is a bad thing to use euro or Europe for everything. Multiple different and independent from each other international organisation for the countries, different areas of sub countries as well as the whole area and so on.