{"id":194638,"date":"2026-03-03T07:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/how-close-is-the-eu-to-break-free-from-visa-and-mastercards-grip\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T07:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:49:08","slug":"how-close-is-the-eu-to-break-free-from-visa-and-mastercards-grip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/how-close-is-the-eu-to-break-free-from-visa-and-mastercards-grip\/","title":{"rendered":"How close is the EU to break free from Visa and Mastercard&#8217;s grip?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Europe needs to roll up its sleeves, or it risks losing its last bit of independence to U.S.-controlled payment schemes. As the first EU instant payment system, WERO aims to become Europe\u2019s ticket to payment autonomy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/03\/03\/how-close-is-the-eu-to-break-free-from-visa-and-mastercards-grip\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe needs to roll up its sleeves, or it risks losing its last bit of independence to U.S.-controlled payment schemes. As the first EU instant payment system, WERO aims to become Europe\u2019s ticket to payment autonomy. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":194639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}