* martin f krafft
| also sprach Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> [2004.01.16.1619 +0100]:
| > I wouldn't want to depend on this since the police once controlled
| > my passport on the train from .nl to .de. I would not want to be
| > there w/o a valid passport.
|
| It is the law in Europe that you have to carry an official
| identification paper on you at all times, whether you are in your
| home country (where they are forgiving sometimes) or not.
No, it's not. It's the law in the EU. Europe still has some free
countries left.