Recently, governments and the payments industry in Greece, Ireland, Malta, Poland and Turkey have worked together to raise the contactless payments limit, according to Visa.
Turkey announced it is increasing the current contactless limit of 120TL (appr. EUR 17.19, press time) and will only require a PIN entry for purchases above 250TL (appr. EUR 35.53); while Poland has raised the limit to 100PLN (appr. EUR 21.71, press time), Ireland, Greece and Malta are raising the limit to 50 EUR, and a number of other European countries are reviewing an increase.
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