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Biometric Passports Agreed To In EU
An anonymous reader writes "The European Parliament has signed up to a plan to introduce computerized biometric passports including people's fingerprints as well as their photographs, despite criticism from civil liberties groups and security experts who argue that the move is flawed on technical grounds. (Back in 2005 Sweden and Norway began deploying biometric passports.)"
You do realise that we have to choose between people that come in to work on Friday morning for 5 minutes to collect their daily allowance and then bugger of home and people who want to prosecute whistleblowers?
The EU is the largest assembly of corrupt and indadequate politicians you will ever find.
Nevertheless I will vote. There is some hope in me yet that there will be at least one MP who isn't like that.
IMHO the EU has to go. Everything that happened after the EEG has turned out for the worst. Sure we have had the joys of having some of our laws relaxed because if the EU, but the constant interference of what basically are foreign powers in our national politics is what pisses me off big time.
And don't forget about them dangerous homosexuals. You can be protected from them if you give up your fingerprints.
The European Parliament has little to no power in how the EU is run.
It is the Commission and the Council who have the power. And you don't get to (directly) vote for them.
The EU is horribly undemocratic and very non-transparent. For example, how many member states actually let their citizens -vote- on new treaties that strip them of their sovereignty? Almost none!