ID card rollout begins

[Igor Mozolevsky]

2008/9/25 James Firth:

> "Those cards, which will be voluntary, may look different and display
> different information but they will enable the holder to travel without a
> passport around the EU."

The last time I was in Italy, a UK driving licence was not a good
enough document to verify who I was for the purposes of registering at
a hotel, nor was it a good enough document for internet cafes... So
things said here may not necessarily reflect the reality of things in
the rest of the EU. Besides, I'm pretty sure that the border control
officials would want to see the documents issued by country of your
citizenship and not by someone else, especially given the limited
number of cards that will be issued over the next few years.