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"en.20120704.25.3-423-500"2
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"Seven per cent of the population of the EU (around 30 million people) do not have a bank account. Of these, 6.4 million people have either been denied an account or have not dared to open one. Banking exclusion goes hand in hand with social exclusion, can aggravate it and makes opportunities for social reintegration difficult. Moreover, leaving aside the situation of vulnerable persons, EU citizens may face a number of difficulties when they want to carry out banking operations outside their country of residence. As the report notes, the fight against money-laundering and terrorist financing is sometimes used as a pretext for rejecting consumers. Some States have already adopted legislative approaches to guarantee access to basic banking services and 100% of households benefit from this: that is the case in Finland and the Netherlands. The report by my fellow MEP, Mr Klute of
is a compromise report which calls on the Commission to submit a directive guaranteeing access to basic banking services and which makes a number of recommendations regarding the contents of this directive. I therefore chose to vote in favour."@en1
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