Under the new EU rules against roaming charges, it is perfectly normal for someone to live in one EU country and use a mobile phone number from another EU country without any charges. If your main phone number has a different country code, then you cannot use that number with PayPal. PayPal's legal status and its obligation to maintain country-specific accounts doesn't have anything to do with the phone number issue. This is simply a result of the developers and decision-makers living in the middle ages!
... View more