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European banking is a really sad state of affairs (fedia.io)
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Moving away: close your bank account, you must live in the country to have a bank account here.

Moving to: you must open a bank account here, we don't accept foreign IBANs

Using a banking application: you must have US ~~tech~~ spyware on your phone, otherwise we don't consider it secure.

We need a European federation. I want to be able to move somewhere with my European bank account, get paid by European employer, pay with my European money using a European payment system without having to tell some other non-European country all about it.

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[–] VisionScout@lemmy.wtf 1 points 4 months ago

You wrote:

I am a legal EU resident in another country and cannot open an account in France, Germany, and many other countries. That’s the problem.

Which is completely false. It's not as easy as if you are a resident but it's not impossible.

Is it impossible for you to accept that we have different experiences?

No, and it's totally fine we have different experiences, but don't say it's impossible since that's not the case. That was my point.