[Foundation-l] Regarding the Fundraising Banner

Thu Nov 6 10:35:32 UTC 2008

Hoi,
When I transfer money to Italy, I have done this in the past, there should
be no costs involved both to me and the recipient. At worst the recipient
should not pay more then he would for receiving money from within Italy.
Thanks,
       GerardM

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Ilario Valdelli <valdelli at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Gerard Meijssen
> <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hoi,
> > An international money transfer does cost as much in European Community
> as
> > it costs to transfer money within your country. This means that all
> > Europeans should be able to transfer money to Belgium at this same cost.
> > However, I have been told that some Italian banks do not comply with this
> > European directive.
>
> It's true.
>
> The countries which uses Euro or have some agreements with EU (ie
> Switzerland) has reduced all costs for international money transfer in
> Europe. Switzerland has followed this way at the end of this year.
>
> A money transfer in Italy from Switzerland, for example, some months
> ago has had a cost of 5 CHF, today some banks apply the some costs of
> internal money transfer.
>
> Ilario
>
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