On Thursday 4 April, the European Parliament approved the new security rules for identity cards and residence permits issued in the EU. By 335 votes to 269 (21 abstentions), it validated the report by Gérard Deprez (ALDE, Belgium), which requires future cards to contain two fingerprints in the chip, a controversial element that led some Greens/EFA and S&D representatives to reject the text.
According to the Belgian, there are more than 250 different versions of identity cards and residence...