Push for National ID cards in Britian - EU Business
Britain's home secretary, David Blunkett, reaffirmed Monday that he wants to introduce a compulsory national identification card in his country, calling it a "valuable step" towards EU visa harmonisation. He said his recommendation was a logical development of an ID card system for asylum-seekers he started last year, and plans by big EU countries to eventually include bio-metric information -- fingerprint and face-scan data -- in their passports.