Paypal and nationality...

I do not have a paypal account.

I do have a credit card (AMEX) and I'm living in Italy.

Today I tried to setup an account and bind it to my card. I dislike localizations so the first thing I did was having it keeping the English language after I had to tell the system I'm Italian.
Well I registered and everything went smooth till the point of telling paypal the card I want to use...
I followed the links and... =_= Oh, my card isn't in the list...
Strange. Let's try to use the contact module to see what's wrong and... Oh, it says that it isn't available for "U.S. English", I should go to my preferences and switch it to Italian...

In the end apparently IF I'm Italian I cannot use AMEX...

Paypal sucks?