The International Herald Tribune reports: The European Union justice and security minister said Friday that controls sought on non-EU visitors, part of fighting terrorism, would include collection of biometrics, as well as fingerprints, and that a fingerprint registry would help the authorities in the 27-country bloc to identify people who had exceeded the time allowed for their stays.

Also planned is an online registration process, during which visitors would provide information before they came. The steps would require approval of all EU members.

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They hope the 27 EU members can agree on a final plan in 2009. Maybe we'll see the system in place by 2012?

You know what they say about new EU rules

The Germans love them
The French ignore them
The Italians say they don't understand them
and the British just implement them in the most annoying way possible

I don't know........the euro has been pretty successful!