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That's exactly the problem people have with the EU. They care (and cost a lot of money) about small things while completely ignoring actual issues. Nobody reall

That's exactly the problem people have with the EU. They care (and cost a lot of money) about small things while completely ignoring actual issues. Nobody really wants some digital IDs or censored DNS. Fix the damn war happening right on the border and the resulting energy crisis (I don't mean by buying Russian product). Also, stop making the energy crisis even worse.

sofixa 3y ago
> Nobody really wants some digital IDs I want a digital ID, it would save me a lot of time and would be extremely practical (and it's already technically possible anyway, it would be a waste not to have it). > Fix the damn war happening right on the border and the resulting energy crisis (I don't mean by buying Russian product) Oh, just "fix" them, right? Click on the Fix button in the "Diagnose issues" wizard? Why didn't you say that earlier, if only EU leaders knew it was that easy! The EU is doing a lot to help Ukraine, with funds for the military and humanitarian sides, and donations of lots of equipment. European armies cannot get involved without risking escalation to nuclear war, which nobody wants, so I can hardly see what more you can ask them to do. A for the energy crisis, guess what, the EU as a whole, and each individual country, has plans already in place and in progress to "fix" it. It just takes decades to deploy enough "green" electricity generation, replace infrastructure, update insulation at people's homes, replace their heating method, etc.
- throwaway11460 3y ago
  Save time, how? I still have to go renew my ID every ten years even with the digital one. It doesn't save me any time at all. Perhaps your local law had some problems that made online interaction hard, but I personally didn't carry or show my physical ID in the past decade once. Fix your local law instead of having the EU do it for you, we need their attention on difficult international issues. No buttons. Hard, difficult and long work towards fixing. Instead of separating attention across things that are nice-to-have but don't really change that much. It's exactly because the EU people know it's not easy they instead work on something else. That needs to stop. My small country did more to help Ukraine than the largest economies in the bloc. There is much more that could be done. Censoring DNS to be more like Russia is not that.
  - sofixa 3y ago
    > Save time, how? I still have to go renew my ID every ten years even with the digital one. It doesn't save me any time at all. Perhaps your local law had some problems that made online interaction hard, but I personally didn't carry or show my physical ID in the past decade once. Fix your local law instead of having the EU do it for you, we need their attention on difficult international issues. Proving your identity online when you need that is a pain, for government services or other things like banks (opening a new bank account). I vastly prefer having a digital ID that can be used to prove who I am online over relying on varying validation methods with varying levels of actual security - e.g. in France, for the tax office to be able to process your tax returns online, you need to prove your identity which happens by getting snail mail with codes; for banks, there's varying stuff like uploading pictures of your ID, or having to go to a bank branch for them to scan it. Having an uniform digital ID that anyone can attest means the problem goes away and everything is more secure, because nobody needs a scan of your ID card anymore. > Instead of separating attention across things that are nice-to-have but don't really change that much Are you under the impression that something as big as the EU can only do one thing at a time? > It's exactly because the EU people know it's not easy they instead work on something else. That needs to stop. Or they work on the complicated stuff, but since it takes time, also have the energy and money to work on other stuff at the same time? Shocking, I know. > My small country did more to help Ukraine than the largest economies in the bloc. There is much more that could be done Like, what more can be done specifically? Give more money, weapons? Sadly pockets aren't infinite, and especially with the hit due to Covid and Russian gas blackmail, European countries don't have large amounts of money laying around. And yet, they've donated billions of euros and billions of euros worth of equipment, as well as provided training for Ukrainian forces.
    - throwaway11460 3y ago
      All your French problems could be fixed without EU digital ID. In my country I can use my bank account online login to prove my identity to the tax man. The only time I had to go somewhere in person is for my first bank account - same as with digital ID. I am under the impression that these hard problems require so much resources that not even something as big as EU can split their attention to some small insignificancies, yes. If they have time for something small and merely nice to have, they're not doing enough about the important things. Even the smallest countries donated billions, a significant percentage of their GDP. If the biggest economies didn't donate hundreds of billions, there is much more to be done.

sofixa 3y ago

> Nobody really wants some digital IDs I want a digital ID, it would save me a lot of time and would be extremely practical (and it's already technically possible anyway, it would be a waste not to have it). > Fix the damn war happening right on the border and the resulting energy crisis (I don't mean by buying Russian product) Oh, just "fix" them, right? Click on the Fix button in the "Diagnose issues" wizard? Why didn't you say that earlier, if only EU leaders knew it was that easy! The EU is doing a lot to help Ukraine, with funds for the military and humanitarian sides, and donations of lots of equipment. European armies cannot get involved without risking escalation to nuclear war, which nobody wants, so I can hardly see what more you can ask them to do. A for the energy crisis, guess what, the EU as a whole, and each individual country, has plans already in place and in progress to "fix" it. It just takes decades to deploy enough "green" electricity generation, replace infrastructure, update insulation at people's homes, replace their heating method, etc.

throwaway11460 3y ago
Save time, how? I still have to go renew my ID every ten years even with the digital one. It doesn't save me any time at all. Perhaps your local law had some problems that made online interaction hard, but I personally didn't carry or show my physical ID in the past decade once. Fix your local law instead of having the EU do it for you, we need their attention on difficult international issues. No buttons. Hard, difficult and long work towards fixing. Instead of separating attention across things that are nice-to-have but don't really change that much. It's exactly because the EU people know it's not easy they instead work on something else. That needs to stop. My small country did more to help Ukraine than the largest economies in the bloc. There is much more that could be done. Censoring DNS to be more like Russia is not that.
- sofixa 3y ago
  > Save time, how? I still have to go renew my ID every ten years even with the digital one. It doesn't save me any time at all. Perhaps your local law had some problems that made online interaction hard, but I personally didn't carry or show my physical ID in the past decade once. Fix your local law instead of having the EU do it for you, we need their attention on difficult international issues. Proving your identity online when you need that is a pain, for government services or other things like banks (opening a new bank account). I vastly prefer having a digital ID that can be used to prove who I am online over relying on varying validation methods with varying levels of actual security - e.g. in France, for the tax office to be able to process your tax returns online, you need to prove your identity which happens by getting snail mail with codes; for banks, there's varying stuff like uploading pictures of your ID, or having to go to a bank branch for them to scan it. Having an uniform digital ID that anyone can attest means the problem goes away and everything is more secure, because nobody needs a scan of your ID card anymore. > Instead of separating attention across things that are nice-to-have but don't really change that much Are you under the impression that something as big as the EU can only do one thing at a time? > It's exactly because the EU people know it's not easy they instead work on something else. That needs to stop. Or they work on the complicated stuff, but since it takes time, also have the energy and money to work on other stuff at the same time? Shocking, I know. > My small country did more to help Ukraine than the largest economies in the bloc. There is much more that could be done Like, what more can be done specifically? Give more money, weapons? Sadly pockets aren't infinite, and especially with the hit due to Covid and Russian gas blackmail, European countries don't have large amounts of money laying around. And yet, they've donated billions of euros and billions of euros worth of equipment, as well as provided training for Ukrainian forces.
  - throwaway11460 3y ago
    All your French problems could be fixed without EU digital ID. In my country I can use my bank account online login to prove my identity to the tax man. The only time I had to go somewhere in person is for my first bank account - same as with digital ID. I am under the impression that these hard problems require so much resources that not even something as big as EU can split their attention to some small insignificancies, yes. If they have time for something small and merely nice to have, they're not doing enough about the important things. Even the smallest countries donated billions, a significant percentage of their GDP. If the biggest economies didn't donate hundreds of billions, there is much more to be done.