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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8254

13 July 2002
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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: A few more reasons why Europe is not popular with the public - Bank charges, Hitler on screen

What citizens do not know. All those who own a bankcard in Europe have been informed by their bank of the abolition of, or radical reduction in, bank charges for cross-border payments in euro since 1 July. But, as far as I know, not one single bank has pointed out that this decision was not taken following unexpected and excessive generosity on its part but in application of a binding European Union regulation, approved on 19 December 2001 in codecision by the European Parliament and by the...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION