> I wondered about this too, but a Common European GTA Policy, whilst it
> may please the European Commission, might not be that handy. For
> example, one Irish bank celebrated the introduction of the euro by
> putting currency conversion charges between different euro-denominated
> notes _up_.
If you are referring to the article in the Irish Times that I think you are I got rather the opposite impression. That is, the banks can no longer make FX charges on euro transactions, because they are now different denominations of a single currency. So, they have put up the FX charges on non-euro currency conversion (notably sterling and dollars) by between 60%-300%.
As anecdotal evidence I was in Belgium last week and credit card purchases
while there were charged to me at the triangulated rate with no extras.
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Andrew
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