Yeah, completely missed the point 😂

What about Australia?

As an Italian there’s a thing I don’t understand: Bancomat is both a very well known card circuit (like CB in France) and a virtually unknown and unused payment app. From what I know, all the other parties are payment apps. Do they want to handle POS payments only as app payments or are we going to create an European card circuit? That would be nice!

No, Bancomat Pay doesn’t work like this. It’s more like an overlay over SEPA, from what I’ve seen. My bank sends me statements every time I use it (😂) as if it was a wire transfer.

Edit: GNU Taler works kinda like Satispay (well, like a wallet) but that would be fine for me

The good thing is that almost everyone already has Bancomat Pay without realising it. You just have to activate it with the app.

Edit: they are saying in the press release that everyone is welcome on board and I suspect that Satispay is not too keen to join

Edit 2 (more context): Many stores accept Satispay, but I’d doubt that there are many who know about Bancomat Pay. I’ve seen mainly in self checkouts at supermarkets. Also, Satispay has a developer website, but I haven’t been able to find one for Bancomat Pay

It’s a bit of a grey area (it should go to the relevant section, but if it doesn’t just scroll to the bullet list at the very bottom)

Which Kubernetes distribution are you using? Which storage?

Yes, that’s true.

However, we should first try to amend the rules, in order to avoid bad actors stalling decisions (like Hungary)

Then:

1. Political parties: you don’t vote for S&Ds or PPE. You vote for CDU, Les Republicans (I guess?) or Forza Italia. The US votes R or D (with few exceptions). Would renaming and unifying parties a good idea? I don’t know, but it would create a political continuum and “the EU told us to do so” would cease to have any significant meaning. Here in IT it happens that politicians vote something at the EU level and the they lambast it at home. Also, it would be better if people have more importance to the European Parliament elections than they do now
2. The Euro: why is Sweden gaming the rules. This is badly phrased, but they avoid to meet one of the five required parameters needed for € adoption because they had a referendum and it didn’t pass. DK I think has an opt out, so it’s different, PL, BG, RO still don’t meet the requirements but I think they eventually will adopt the Euro. Isn’t a single currency instrumental?
3. The identity: as a person’s age grows, it’s more likely that they lack a strong European identity (this is empirical, so take it with a grain of salt)
4. A constitution: some progress was made in the early 2000s, but then the process stalled (because the French and the nordics referendums iirc)
5. An army: this is controversial but sometimes pops up

This is what should be done, in my opinion, to bring EU member states closer and more tightly integrated. Also, I think that we can further integrate without risking to get into a USA 2025 situation

There’s !CoMaps@sopuli.xyz, but it lacks public transport in most places

Re: first paragraph. I think that the difference comes from late unification. Italy was divided into small states too, particularly in the north.

Re CoR: yes, I like your idea, but I don’t know enough about EU institutions to say if it’s redundant or not with regards to the parliament

Also, thanks again for the insightful conversation :)

Thanks for the reply, definitely food for thought.

make a good case to abolish nations and have regions be the federal states instead and I’ll listen.

I don’t have any, and I fear that having that many entities would complicate things. Borders are imperfect things, but identity is an important concept, so we should strive to build an European one. More than a Europe of nations, we need a Europe in which everyone (ok, most) can identify with (I’m in Italy and I’m under the impression that I’m in the minority that does, not sure of what’s like elsewhere). Then borders won’t have such a strong meaning anymore.

Yes, sadly I have to agree with you

How long will it take? A lot of water shall flow as the saying goes… maybe 20 years will be enough? Btw, since you should be enjoying the idea, would you prefer to abolish national states and to keep the regions (with the necessary adjustments, i.e. finally merging Tyrol with South Tyrol)?

I think that not even the EU is ready for a federation, as much as I wish it would

It is as soon as you use LoRa. Reticulum is just an overlay