Moving away: close your bank account, you must live in the country to have a bank account here.
Moving to: you must open a bank account here, we don’t accept foreign IBANs
Using a banking application: you must have US tech spyware on your phone, otherwise we don’t consider it secure.
We need a European federation. I want to be able to move somewhere with my European bank account, get paid by European employer, pay with my European money using a European payment system without having to tell some other non-European country all about it.


Yes you can. Did you tried calling or sending and email asking how to proceed? Just go there physically, it’s the easiest way.
Years ago you could open account in commerzbank in germany via registered letter. I did it and i never lived in germany. I had some problems with the slow mail company… But that’s another story.