Originally Posted by
percysmith
It could be possible the terminal has PIN bypass for both chip-and-PIN and chip-and-singature cards (merchants bears fraud loss).
Whatver they lose in fraud they more than recoup than DCCing every non-Euro card.
That's not really bypass though but more configuring the terminal so that it doesn't support PIN. Bypass occurs when the terminal asks for one but you push Enter without entering it.