yogibaer, you are living in a dreamworld! I live in Hungary (Europe and Hungary is in the EU) and I have to pay minimum of 5 EUR for "international" bank trasfers! Inside EU as well!
If your bank do not charge you anything for sending money, that is good for you, but this is not the case in each and every country in Europe!
The rule is for inner european bank transfers a bank is not allowed to charge more than for a domestic transaction for an amount of less than 50k (transaction currency EUR). I'd say 5 is expensive for domestic transactions.
Nevermind, I was just wondering. But if my bank was as expensive as yours (for local and EU-Transfers in ) I'd do banking from somewhere else.
I am a bit jelous now! ALL THE BANKS IN HUNGARY ARE THIS EXPENSIVE! It is soo good to hear that in other parts of the world, EU works as it should be! 8( (I pay around 1 Eur for a domestic transfer)
And just for you to know, each country should negotiate the rules that apply to them and Hungary was a real real bad negotiator when we joined the EU. Thats why a lot of nice and helpful laws not apply to Hungary!!! Our leaders were (are) just pump and dump devs, they just stole as much as they can, and they do not care what is good for Hungary in general...
Ok, enough of the politics, this is how it works in Hungary, thats how I have to play the game...
