Its the first step to the EU mandatory-sex-offender-registry-for-everyone that most continental Europeans call the "resident register" or "population register".

Its the first step to the EU mandatory-sex-offender-registry-for-everyone that most continental Europeans call the "resident register" or "population register". For all you uninformed, that's where you must register with the police whenever you stay someplace. (Which is why I'm so derisive.) And they are starting to use national ID cards for this purpose now. So in that respect this makes perfect sense. An electronic EU ID makes (for example) mandatory registration with the police so much easier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_registration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_registration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_registration_in_Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_registration_in_Russi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propiska_in_the_Soviet_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propiska_in_the_Soviet_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukou_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukou_system (Note the latter systems are your ID.)