{"id":194863,"date":"2026-03-04T07:49:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/why-europe-needs-a-payment-system-independent-of-mastercard-and-visa\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T07:49:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:49:03","slug":"why-europe-needs-a-payment-system-independent-of-mastercard-and-visa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/why-europe-needs-a-payment-system-independent-of-mastercard-and-visa\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Europe needs a payment system independent of Mastercard and Visa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Europe spends trillions of euros every year on card payments, yet almost none of them run through a European system. Now the EU wants to change that, but can it? Watch the video.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/03\/04\/why-europe-needs-a-payment-system-independent-of-mastercard-and-visa\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe spends trillions of euros every year on card payments, yet almost none of them run through a European system. Now the EU wants to change that, but can it? Watch the video. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":194864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194863","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\/194863","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=194863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}