European Union driving licences should include the holder's fingerprints to boost security, EU president Britain said on Wednesday. The 25-nation bloc has agreed that passports, visas and identity cards issued by EU states should include biometric data. British Home Secretary Charles Clarke said the logical next step would be to include them in driving licences.
"If we are doing that for passports, for visas, for ID cards, shouldn't we also be doing that for driving licences and I think there is a good logic for that," Clarke told a news conference after addressing the European Parliament.