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Joana Mourão Carvalho

Financial sovereignty, digital euro and payment roaming: EU seeks alternatives to US cards

Europe spends billions of euros every year on card payments, almost all of them processed outside European systems.

The vast majority of card purchases go through Visa or Mastercard, two US companies that dominate global payments.

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