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Citizens over the age of 18 will be able to apply for a new national electronic identity card (eID) as of January 27, Deputy Research and Innovation Minister Nicodemos Damianou said on Tuesday.
The issuance of the first 100,000 eIDs will be subsidised by the government, with 30,000 of them given out for free and the remaining 70,000 available for €15.
EIDs can be used as means of authentication, identification