I don't think that is possible. If the game owners can't do it, how do you expect us to?

You could create the same characters and just level them up and copy the builds exactly. But not a easy quick solution.

As other people have said there is no way to transfer characters, or anything else. Stuff purchased outside the game is available on both servers (for example if you bought Morrowind Collectors Edition through the ESO site or a 3rd party you'll have access to Morrowind, the Warden class, the dwarven horse and dog and everything else on both servers) but anything bought in the crown store is server specific (so if you bought the Morrowind DLC you'd only have that on the server you were playing at the time).

The nearest you can get to a transfer is to note down all your characters class, race, skills, gear etc. and then re-create them manually on the new server...assuming the names are available of course. Then you'd need to re-purchase any DLC and crown store items you've already bought.

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Rather than an inability to copy a database entry, the reason is more likely an interpretation of EU privacy laws, that forbid a company's registered EU office to forward their client's personal data to a place outside of the EU's legislation without the client's explicit consent.

So to better be safe than sorry, they do not provide server transfers, despite the facts that character data is not personal data, all our actual personal data available to the EU server was entered on the US-based website, and the players would not only have to give their consent to copy the chars but actually request and likely pay for the service.

There's a few reasons I don't think that can be why they don't allow server transfers:

1) ZOS themselves have said it's a technical restriction. This is why the only server transfer they've allowed was to the console servers (both EU and NA) when they were brand new - because then they were copying data to an empty database. This is also why servers have to take turns having their characters copied to the PTS - because they can't merge data from both.

2) This restriction pre-dates the introduction of the EUs General Data Protection Regulations (which only came into force last year). This isn't something which used to be available and was removed, it has never been allowed and, according to ZOS, has never been possible.

3) If that was the case surely they'd allow transfers from one NA server to another, and would not be allowed to copy the EU server data to the PTS, which they do regularly when it's in use.

4) If they think character data in a game counts as personal data under GDPR they need a better legal team.

5) It actually is permitted to store EU residents personal data outside the EU, the storage method just needs to comply with EU requirements for security. And as you said getting permission to transfer it is simply a matter of consent which would be very easy to obtain in this case - if the player has to manually activate the transfer by pushing a button or using an item or whatever then they're consenting to it happening. A pop-up confirmation to make sure you know what the button does would probably be a good idea, and that's what most games do (sometimes alongside choosing your new server, sometimes as a seperate step) but again it's fairly simple to set up.