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Re:Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant by Y_Y on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @09:27AM (#43621559)
The United Nations has a flag and anthem too.

The umbrella interoperability initiative that includes Bizum is Swiss (neither EU nor Eurozone).

Maybe you have a radical viewpoint, or maybe you're just unfamiliar with the subject matter, but individual EU countries are very much separate entities, notwithstanding many helpful treaties.

There are lots of transnational entities like the EU and monetary unions like the Eurozone.

There's nothing so special about this arrangement that means it couldn't happen elsewhere.

https://empsa.org/news/leading-european-mobile-payment-solut...

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Re:Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant by graemep on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @11:13AM (#43622738)
> The umbrella interoperability initiative that includes Bizum is Swiss (neither EU nor Eurozone).

and yet Switzerland is not one of the countries where Bizum can be used?

The UN does not have a common currency or a parliament etc.

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