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Re:‘Stop using paper checks,’ says agency in charge of them by ido on Friday June 03, 2016 @10:47PM (#11834689)
Scale might explain NZ but not the EU?
Re:‘Stop using paper checks,’ says agency in charge of them by palunon on Friday June 03, 2016 @11:52PM (#11834828)
Well, the EU isn't a country.

Scale might explain it for individual countries situation

Re:‘Stop using paper checks,’ says agency in charge of them by icebraining on Saturday June 04, 2016 @01:16AM (#11835030)
Well, the EU isn't a country.

But it still has introduced SEPA over its whole area. If anything, a country should have less of a problem than a still somewhat disjoint union of 28 countries.