Vatican City is not in the EU.

I seriously don't understand what point you're attempting to make here. This legislation will make it harder for people to simply launder money. Yes, you are right that it won't stop people from complicatedly laundering money but that's not the point of the legislation.

The "Vatican" bank would still need to comply with all the AML laws to take the cash. Carrying the cash (as notes) to Vatican alone would still be an issue. Indeed, a proper straw man argument.

>Vatican City is not in the EU.

Too bad eh? But schengen..and thinking about it switzerland too, hey criminals! You are once again welcomed to give us (switzerland) the money, because you cant use it somewhere else....what a excellent idea.

>I seriously don't understand what point you're attempting to make here.

I don't understand why try to defend a law that is as effective as german power production.

> Too bad eh?

So you accept that your tangent is not relevant?

I feel like you're not actually interested in this specific subject but rather just have an anti-EU axe to grind. That's a tiresome way to be and I would suggest you try to hold in your urges and stay on subject. There's plenty of time and space to have these discussions but railroading any discussion about the EU into angry Farage-esqe diatribe is the domain of demagogues.