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Re:European digital ID wallets are a gift to Google and Apple by jampekka on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @09:11AM (#48732270)
For context, as yearly spending of 285 million €, that compares to building roughly 20 km of motorway, or 0.5% of EU's agriculture subsidies, or half what the German federal government pays Microsoft per year.

Edit: 2000m/7 is 285m, not 466m.

Re:European digital ID wallets are a gift to Google and Apple by blitzar on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @09:12AM (#48732293)
> if they just spent a little, maybe as much as a couple of million it would make a huge difference, but they refuse to ...

they do.

> 250 million isn't much ...

sigh.