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ISSUE NO. 1472
19 - 25 SEPTEMBER 2013
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Youths held THIRTY-EIGHT mostly under 18-year-olds, were held in Palma for trying to prevent students from entering Archiduque Luis Salvador Secondary School and causing damage to street fittings.
Cruising in ALMOST 778,490 cruise-ship passengers visited the Balearics in the first seven months of this year, 41.03 per cent more than the same period last year.
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Expats lobby for a return of ID cards THOUSANDs of people asking for the foreign residents card to be reinstated have prompted a call for the European Union (EU) to rethink legislation. The Conservative Partido Popular (PP) in Calvia will demand that the EU goes back to giving its citizens living in Spain an ID card with a photograph. Next Thursday, the PP will present a motion at the council meeting to get back the card, which was done away with in 2006 due to a change in EU legislation.
Head of Foreign Residents’ Department in Calvia, Angie Guerrero (pictured), has reportedly received thousands of
requests to reinstate the card. Having a photo and fingerprint, it had the same validity as the Spanish ID card (DNI). The green document now issued to EU residents has no legal validity on its own, as holders must also carry their own country’s ID. In Calvia there are more than 13,000 EU residents, of which more than 6,000 are British, the worst affected, because as the UK has no ID card they have to carry their passport. NonEU citizens must have a Spanish issued ID card.