Erik Zachte wrote on Sat Aug 23 00:01:50 UTC 2003:
Still I think Germany would be a better start for a non US bank account, due to its size and number of wikipedians there. It would still be a worthwile undertaking even if it could not service as an inlet for donations from other EU countries.
It is now free of charge to send money in Europe. I did it already(DE->FR). It works. You just have to ask for the rules and follow them.
Joachim (aka Fantasy :-)
Joachim Kerschbaumer wrote:
It is now free of charge to send money in Europe. I did it already(DE->FR). It works. You just have to ask for the rules and follow them.
Out of curiosity, does this apply across the entire EU, or only within the euro-zone? For example, could you send money DE->UK (or vice versa) for free?
-Mark
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Joachim Kerschbaumer wrote:
It is now free of charge to send money in Europe. I did it already(DE->FR). It works. You just have to ask for the rules and follow them.
As far as I understood, it is not necessarily free of charge, but charges for sending money to another Euro (or EU? or EMU?) country should not cost more than charges for transactions within your own country. If the latter are free (which they sometimes but not always are), so are the former.
Andre Engels
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