Talk:Passports of the European Union

message: The image gallery is incomplete so far. Missing images EU passports of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Rep, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Luxembourg, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden. Can someone please get some good pictures for the above remaining countries.
:Also, the current photos of the Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish and Romanian passports do not show an EU passport, because the words "European Union" at the top of the front cover page are missing, and in the case of the Lithuanian passport, the cover color is wrong. Markus Kuhn 20:08, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Have updated the Polish one with passport issued late 2006, has the words European Union  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.100.113.45 (talk) 22:15, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gallery 

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message: Because the EU is trying to achieve visa mutuality with a number of countries, I think it would be worth to create a subsection in this article that deals with the issue. The EU's goal is that the passports of its member states will be equally accepted al over the world, and visa requirments will be equally applied or abolished. For exmaple, last year many Eastern and Cental European EU citizens needed to apply for a visa if they intended to spend a short period of time in Canada. This restriction did not apply to Western or Northern European EU citizens. Because of the EU policy and other factors, Canada abolished its visa requirement for all EU citizens except Romania and Bulgaria, which will come later. Due to this policy of attemting to create a uniform visa system for all EU citizens, Wikipedia should also dedicate a section to this policy.
I already wrote some about it, but since it somehow made it impossible to see the gallery, it was removed. Here it is again:
===Visa-free Travel===
Although member states issue their own passports, the EU is has a common visa policy. It is also working to achieve visa mutuality, respective to all member states. Today, EU passport holders are allowed to visit Mexico and Panama under the same condititions. The same is true for Canada save for Bulgarian and Romanian visitors; however, the visa requirement for those countries is expected to be removed in the near future.
:The EU might have a common visa policy in theory, but in practice those EU countries that are not in the Schengen area (e.g. the UK, Ireland) have different visa policies and issue their own visas. Ondewelle (talk) 21:25, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Visa free Travel 

message: Although member states issue their own passports, the EU is has a common visa policy. It is also working to achieve visa mutuality, respective to all member states. Today, EU passport holders are allowed to visit Mexico and Panama under the same condititions. The same is true for Canada save for Bulgarian and Romanian visitors; however, the visa requirement for those countries is expected to be removed in the near future.
:The EU might have a common visa policy in theory, but in practice those EU countries that are not in the Schengen area (e.g. the UK, Ireland) have different visa policies and issue their own visas. Ondewelle (talk) 21:25, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Visa-free Travel

message: What about overseas territories of EU member states? I believe - with a few exeptions for some British dependences - they are all visa-free for EU-passport holders? Aren't they? --BotevFixer (talk) 00:24, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: True, indeed except for a few British (e.g. Pitcairn/BIOT/Ascension) und uninhabited French ones (e.g. Kergueles), that require pre-issued landing permits. Passportguy (talk) 10:16, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have just added them. And I also added Cook Islands and Tokelau - I am not sure but I think they are also visa-free since they are New Zealand's territories. And what about Falkland Islands? --BotevFixer (talk) 12:14, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

text: I double-checked this and it looks like we made a mistake : Several British dependancies have not (yet) extended their visa-free travel privledges to Romanians/Bulgarians, specifically Anguilla, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. So I'll remove them from the list again. Passportguy (talk) 14:27, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overseas territories 

message: the name of the article should change to European union passport or passports - As it is now, European passports, the article should also include non-EU countries but European ones e.g. Moldova, Albania - they are also Europeans thus their passport is also a european one--Melitikus (talk) 05:47, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think we should not change it because what is really important here, is the citizenship, i.e. a Polish passport is a passport issued to Polish citizens and a European passport is a passport issued to European citizens. The European citizenship as such exists only in the European Union. --Botev (talk) 10:17, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

text: I too think that Melitikus's suggestion is a good one: for one thing, it would avoid potential ambiguity, since what is being discussed are the passports issued by EU countries to their citizens, not passports issued by all European countries. Ondewelle (talk) 21:27, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: European Union Passports

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message: Australia should be added to the list of Reciprocal Visa Free Countries with the EU since Passports of the EU and other ETA European Passports will get the eVisitor System on the 27th October 2008, this replaces the ETA (Electronic Ticket Authority). This should be left onPryde 01 (talk) 05:21, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The eVisitor is still a visa. You just don't apply for it at the embassy but directly at Australian authorities online. Look for example at the website of the Australian Embassy in Warsaw: http://www.poland.embassy.gov.au/wsaw/home.html  It clearly states that the eVisitor is an electronic visa. --Botev (talk) 14:54, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: But it's not really "visa on arrival" because it requires pre-arrival actions! --Botev (talk) 16:41, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Australia eVisitor

message: Why do we need a gallery of every single passport? Why is it still here, they're against WP policy.- J.Logan`t: 12:05, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Why whould they be against WP policy? It's not a random selection. - SSJ ☎ 12:25, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Galleries in general are against policy, it is somewhere under WP:NOT I think. These articles are meant to be about text rather than lots of pictures. I'm sure we can do with just two or three to illustrate the fact that they're red and have certain writing on them - and all the other passport pages can use an image of each of them.- J.Logan`t: 00:05, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that an article's main focus should not be on pictures. However since this article does talk about European passports, I find it quite useful to have a gallery illustrating what the article is talking about. Despite having a common type design, the design does vary substantially from country to country, a fact that is much easier to illustrate than to explain in text. Passportguy (talk) 09:05, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
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message: From the images shown, it doesn't look like they are all burgundy. In fact, that seems to account for about half the passports. - UtherSRG (talk) 13:48, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Well they're meant to be burgundy. I think the problem might be poor quality scans. But don't mention the war or we'll have the image mafia descend down on top of us. — Blue-Haired Lawyer t 14:20, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, burgundy can’t be both “mandatory” and a “recommendation”. Mr Larrington (talk) 22:51, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Burgundy? 

message: This needs to be talked about: The Member States may issue an emergency travel document using a EU-standard model for a single journey. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/LSU/?uri=CELEX:41996D0409 – Kaihsu (talk) 21:42, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I've  the appropriate edits. BushelCandle (talk) 05:08, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
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message: The very first picture on the top of the article is supposed to show an example of an EU passport. The "Austrian" passport is chosen. It is not a scan or an image of the actual Austrian passport though, as can be seen in the section "Overview of passports issued by 28 Member States" under Austria.
Specifically: The word "PASSPORT" is missing under "REISEPASS". Also the font is not correct. Couldn't we just use the same picture as in the list instead of the wrong one?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Quetzcoatl (talk • contribs) 09:42, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
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message: Ireland is still the only EU country to issue a passport in card format appears to be misleading. Maybe the text should be amended as follows: Ireland is still the only EU country to issue a passport in card format in addition to a valid passport booklet. Regards, Olli1800 (talk) 08:30, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
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message: Please note the proposed merge of passports of the European Economic Area into this article. --Glentamara (talk) 18:50, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
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message: It states in the lead and in the Common design features section that passport covers are burgundy red except Croatia. At least one other country's passport is a different colour namely France, which uses bordeaux red. The lead claims that the burgundy red colour is compulsory (citing a non-binding EU resolution), although immediately contradicts itself by citing the case of Croatia's blue passport. Later in the Common design features section it again contradicts the lead by listing several non-binding resolutions.
So I suggest removing or changing the lead claiming the compulsory colour. AJKGORDON«» 14:42, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
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