30/10/2000 (Agence Europe) - "I hope we shall be able to nip this stupid story in the bud", said the Commission's spokesman Jonathan Faull on Monday, in answer to the press questioning him about information (notably published in the "Sunday Times") by which the EU is ready to introduce a single EU passport, where the twelve stars would replace national emblems. What the EU is envisaging doing, it to render identity cards more secure and harder to forge, especially by providing for a uniform presentation of personal data on them (size, sex, etc.), said the spokesman, stipulating that, for passports, this issue had already been settled.