While Commissioner Kroes still maintains the bureaucratic and ideologic fiction that in a true Europe, retail payments and markets should all be panEuropean, Emerce reports in this artikel about the real-life and domestic world of E-commerce. Only 6 % of the Europeans does cross-border shopping. Which is of course reason enough for the Commission to start a consultation to find out how the holy grail of panEuropean e-commerce can be reached.
Now, what should come first: the e-commerce bit or the payment bit?
