Thread: Seriousness Price of a passport?
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Old 05-13-2009, 05:11 AM   #40
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Originally Posted by Sweetpea View Post
You must have both of them? As in France (from what I understand from Z) here you have either a passport or an ID card. With a passport you can go anywhere in the world, the ID card won't let you leave Europe.

And neither are mandatory, as long you have a valid way to identify yourself (a driver's license is valid as well, for example), but I'm not sure what you need if you cross into a bordering country (Shengen country that is)

The simultaneous issue of the passport and card was largely a method of 'forcing' the id card onto a seemingly reluctant public. As a tactic I think it has been quietly dropped as the 'credit crunch' has reduced the available funding.
But the current government is very reluctant to stop the process, they just keep changing the goalposts ....
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