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Maestro is the common standard applied for debit cards in Europe. Maestro is part of the Mastercard brand and that's where the connection with the US comes from. If I'm not mistaken, all other debit cards will soon be phased out in the Eurozone in favor of Maestro. Maestro can already be used for online payments in Belgium.

Maestro is for debit cards, [b]not [/b]for credit cards

anton:
How similar are the various european governments.

It's got more to do with the voting and representative process than with the government in itself. In Western Europe you've got various degrees of proportional representation. The odd duck out is the UK where they still practice the - in my opinion - very undemocratic single winner system, as this (among other reasons) makes the outcome of elections very much dependent on redistricting or gerrymandering.

anton:
Similar to belgian's enough for you to comment on them in a half way competant manner?

Depends on what you call compentent. I'm definitely not a specialist.

anton:
How does beligian's constitution describe itself?

Quite Liberal (classical liberal, that is), but in practice the constitution is far less important here than in a legal system practicing common law and interpretation and precedence is less important in legal matters.

anton:
Also, how many other nations in europe share these traits?

All of them? None that I know off. I guess (5) is quite specific to Belgium, but I'm not entirely certain.

anton:
Thanks

My pleasure