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If a regulation now before the European Parliament12 is passed in the coming months, it will stop banks from discriminating against cross-border payments, making them charge the same for these as for local ones. At a recent conference, Romano Prodi, the president of the commission, asked:”What use is a single currency if citizens and companies can use it only on paper or in electronic form in their home country?”Frits Bolkestein, Europe’s internal-market commissioner, berated banks for a decade of inaction and blamed them for bringing the regulation on themselves. He also warned them against equalizing charges upwards by raising the price of local transfers.

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It seems that the top of the European Union is making efforts, pushing for the removal of barriers within the Union.

似乎欧盟的上层（领导）在努力推进改革，消除欧盟内部的壁垒。

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