Those guys in Brussels are fascists. If people don’t like what they are doing, they simply force this onto them.
In 2010, because the SEPA payment schemes had not caught on as a market-driven process, the European Commission took the initiative to set end-dates by which the national euro payment schemes for credit transfers and direct debits would be phased out.
Source: SEPA Migration Plan for Germany
Published by: The German SEPA Council