The EU and US are edging closer on a deal to introduce fingerprints and other security features in EU travel documents, following talks between Washington and Berlin yesterday.
Tom Ridge, the US homeland security secretary, said after meeting Otto Schily, the German interior minister, that the two countries had agreed on the need to upgrade travel documents by including biometric features, such as fingerprints or facial features, the FT said.
The EU wants to introduce biometric in...
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