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British tourists are told to put EU stickers on their passports Simon McGee / UK Daily Mail | May 11, 2008 Britons are to be asked to put a sticker proclaiming the rights of European Union "nationals" on the back cover of their passports. From July 1 next year all new passports issued in the UK and other member countries will quote Article 20 of the EU's founding treaty. But in the meantime the European Commission has also told the British Government to produce stickers quoting the article and encourage as many people as possible to put them on their passports. (Article continues below)
Foreign Office officials last night said the Government was "positive" about the proposals and diplomats were finalising details such as the look of the stickers and how they would be distributed. Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague said Ministers should tell the EU to mind its own business. "Once again the EU is desperate to muscle in on passports. Our Government should remind them that British passports are still primarily Britain's business," he said. "The danger is that this is all part of a broader Brussels agenda to extend their control over how people are looked after abroad. Now it's passports – next could be visas and embassies." CLICK ON THE BANNER TO BUY TERRORSTORM IN |
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