Within most of the region, people can travel freely using just their identity cards.
"People are changing their identity cards, or are carrying a couple of them, " Tanner says.
For all that, identity cards are unlikely to turn into a repeat of the poll-tax fiasco.
In the Polish capital, Warsaw, following street battles, clubs were ordered to introduce identity cards.
Says he'll sort out illegal immigration, but opposes Identity Cards, the one thing essential to do it.
The government hopes the pilot scheme will pave the way for compulsory identity cards within the next decade.
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He predicts an upcoming boost from the government's ambitious program to issue identity cards to all resident Indians.
Of Britain's ten national daily newspapers, only two (the Sun and the Times) are cheerleaders for identity cards.
Kosovars with identity cards issued by their government will now be able to travel in and through Serbia.
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As proof, they have to show identity cards, or an affidavit signed by a priest or local official.
Under the 2004 law, the burqa is already banned in public schools, as it is on identity cards.
But beneficiaries must first register with the party and prove they are Greek, by showing their identity cards.
Germans have to carry identity cards, but they enjoy strict laws preventing government agencies from passing on personal data.
Both the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives voted against identity cards this week.
Even in Belgium, which has had compulsory identity cards since 1919, social-security information is kept on a separate bit of plastic.
For Ruiz, the aristocratic age, before identity cards and international files, was when no one really knew what was in a name.
That allows politicians to claim identity cards are a fairly cheap add-on.
Today, the school building has become a museum, exhibits of pocket watches and identity cards found on the victims stand in glass cases.
On June 30th Alan Johnson, the home secretary, announced that identity cards, particularly unpopular among left-wingers, would never become compulsory for British citizens.
Nevertheless, supporters of identity cards have overlooked the fact that the hijackers did produce identity papers of one sort or another at the airport.
Leingruber first demoed the generator at a performance last March, where he actually printed plastic identity cards for visitors at a Berlin art gallery.
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Those in the camps who are not resettled in rich countries will be offered identity cards, a first step towards letting them seek work.
During a breather between parades, Ms. Acharavadee complained that some Thais regard Buddhism as little more than a detail listed on their national identity cards.
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Nevertheless, identity cards will probably eventually become part of the landscape.
At worst, identity cards will embarrass the government rather as did the Millennium Dome, an architectural folly in east London that suffered spiralling costs and media ridicule.
Whatever the conclusions about identity cards, the ease with which we were able to buy these fakes shows just what a big business identity theft has become.
Any such partial amnesty must be buttressed by tough measures to control future applicants, such as fingerprinting and identity cards, to prevent a repetition of the present situation.
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In this country, we have given the responsibility of maintaining records and issuing identity cards to state and local governments, and let each handle it their own way.
Displaced Christians said they received threatening text messages and "had been approached by strangers asking to see their national identity cards, which show religious affiliation, " the commission said.
The actual process of voting is very slow, as all voters are being asked to show their identity cards and their names are checked off against the list of registered voters.
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