Obtaining a passport, ID card or driver's license in Italy costs more than in the rest of Europe. Raising the alarm is Assoutenti, which compared the fees charged in major European countries for issuing the most important personal documents. The result is clear: Italy tops the list in terms of onerousness, especially for passports. Those who apply for a passport in Italy face a minimum expense of €116, divided between a 42.50-euro bulletin and a 73.50-euro administrative fee. To these can be added other costs: €14.20 for application through the Poste Italiane service and €9.53 for home delivery. The final price can thus easily exceed the 139-euro sum. Definitely cheaper is the situation abroad. In Germany, for example, the standard cost is €70 for citizens over the age of 24, while younger citizens pay €37.50. There is also an express mode: in this case it goes up to €102 and €69.50, respectively. In France the passport costs €86, while it costs just €30 in Spain. The United Kingdom is somewhere in between: the online procedure costs £94.50 (about €112), while with the paper form it comes to £107 (about €126.70). The comparison thus shows a significant imbalance: in Italy the cost of a passport is almost four times higher than in Spain and is higher than that charged by countries with higher average incomes. A gap that weighs especially heavily on large families or those who travel frequently for work or study.