The Easycard is currently in talks with smart-cards providers in other Asian countries, including Octopus in Hong Kong, Ez-link in Singapore and T-Money in South Korea.
What beggars belief is that just as the single currency has ripped away any Euro Zone (EZ), nations ability to control its money supply, set an appropriate interest rate and to float its currency, i.e. monetary policy, the best the Europeans seem to have to suggest is that taxation has to be harmonized as well.