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Having a SIM card is one of these more pressing problems! Government age verification is very much not one of these when you can't even access the government sites.

No ID = No SIM = No bank account = No insurance = No (legal) job = No housing

All of those require an ID already. Same with your examples - applying for social housing is dependant on you proving your identity via an ID.

This petition isn't about eIDs though, it's about the requirement to use eIDs to access the internet. The eIDs already exist in every single EU member state in case you don't know.