But do the citizens of those countries using those rules mostly object to those rules? Do Germans or Italians want different anti-money laundering standards, for example?

> Do Germans or Italians want different anti-money laundering standards, for example?

Yes. Germany is the highest user of cash in G-7 and has radically different views on privacy from other G-7/G-20 country, doesn't even have a centralized citizen register.

They have very little in common with Italy on many aspects, and certainly standards would vary as well.

But what does it matter? You think supra-national organizations actually care what some little people think?

Show me the survey on AML, please.

Edit: German citizens are all properly in registers, more local, but very registered nonetheless. You need to have government ID by law. Plus there is a national tax ID.

Do tell: how do you think these standards are established? By performing surveys or some other democratic/rule of law/other ritual?

FATF is an unelected, undemocratic body, where you have absolute monarchies like Saudi Arabia and authoritarian states like Russia audit the free/democratic/morebuzzwords West.

I can only imagine you think voting matters too.

It doesn’t, never did.