ID Card fines approach 50,000 in Holland

The report from Bloomberg may be read from here. The following is a brief quote: The law obliges everyone to show ID to police on demand, the first time since World War II Dutch citizens have been forced to do so. Some 46,500 people have been fined this year. A comment by a Dutch journalist, Henk Ruyssenaars, titled ID cards: a story I thought I'd never write - may be read from this link. Meantime others more seriously flirting the fringes of the law freely go about their business as this report from the EU on a meeting in the Cotswolds last month makes clear. There is no EU Common Foreign and Security Policy as such a concept fell with the now legally unenforcable EU Constitutional Treaty. If Ministers meet at the expense of their nation states that of course is perfectly acceptable - but if back-up (such as the linked Press Release) is supplied by the EU then that is a quite different matter altogether.