The zombies will stamp your passport after they eat your brains!!!
What’s an “Euro ID card”? 
The EU does not provide ID.
Travel more in Asia, your passport will look awesome, plenty of stamps.
Anyone remember the full page Kingdom of Nepal one, it was loverly!
Every country in the European Union apart from the United Kingdom and the Republic Of Ireland have a national ID card system, and the UK immigration authorities have come to an agreement so that say for example somebody from France could use their national ID card to enter the UK instead of using a passport to enter the UK. Unfortunately, because the UK doesn’t have a national ID card system like most other European Union countries do, a UK citizen must still have a passport to travel to France! 
I’m from the US. Canada stamped my passport when I flew there in 2008 (on a US passport). US Preclearance just swiped it through the machine and let me through.
States finally start respecting the privacy of travellers (if only through negligence) and you’re disappointed about it? I would love to have the freedom of travel where I please without a “Papers, please!” check every time I cross an imaginary line on a map.
You may not realize it, but the passport regime is a relatively recent invention; a hundred years ago it was possible to travel halfway around the world without one.
Mine (USA) gets stamps most places I go… it was stamped in Iran, UAE and Netherlands on my last trip. I have 72 pages in mine and only about 10 blank ones.
Way back when this thread started, I would have said that the USA doesn’t stamp your passport anymore. Recently this trend seems to have changed. Not sure if it’s a homeland security thing. And it’s not terribly consistent. Maybe it’s a zombie thing.
Or rather, traveling between countries that have signed the Schengen Agreement, you do not go through passport control any more. Not all EU countries are Schengen countries, and not all Schengen countries are EU countries.
We recently traveled from Norway, a Schengen country but not an EU country, to Ireland, which is in the EU but not in Schengen. They were definitely checking everyone’s passports at Dublin airport, although citizens of EU countries were in a separate line. None of us was a citizen of an EU country and we all got Irish entry stamps. On the way back home, our passports were also checked, although only I (the lone non-Norwegian-citizen of the bunch) got a passport stamp to prove it.
You certainly do have to if the border police happen to show up. Despite the supposedly open borders, it’s not at all uncommon for them to board trains and check passports (or national ID cards).
I would be amused to see the pre and post 9/11 senario. I would wager most countries stamp now.
This is no longer true. Now the State Department charges $82 for what they once did for free.
On one return trip to New York, the passport control guy just randomly found a blank page to stamp - not using the page opposite the Russian visa - which already had been stamped. Since then, to preserve pages, I politely ask the guy to stamp on the page already stamped for this trip. I’ll still need new pages after one more trip.
Mexico stamped us coming and going, but that’s the last time I’ve gotten stamped since Russia.
EU citizens can ask for their passport to be stamped when they land in a new EU country. A friend of mine does that. Although I’ve been in lots of different European countries I only have US and Canadian stamps in my passport.
One time when I traveled through the Paris airport, there was a lot of construction going on in the terminal, and I had to maneuver through some temporary passageways to get to customs. I had to take a raging pee when I got off the plane, and got lost looking for a bathroom. Somehow, I ended up past customs, and never got stamped entering the country. I was worried I might have a problem leaving, but it wasn’t problem.
Every country I’ve been to in Asia always stamps your passport even for countries like Thailand where you get a visa on arrival. It’s certainly true for China, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, India, Nepal and as far as I know for every other asian country.
I’ve had my Irish passport for over two and a half years now and I don’t have a single stamp on it! I’ve used it for every country I’ve travelled to, except the US. Even Macedonia didn’t stamp it although they’re outside the EU.
It’s the one thing I (very moderately) regret about becoming an EU citizen. I miss collecting passport stamps.
My Israeli passport is stamped when leaving Israel and again upon my return.
My U.S. passport was stamped when I entered the U.S., but not when I left.
This has been my experience too. I suppose it’s because if you’re an EU citizen, it doesn’t usually matter when you entered another EU country since you can stay as long as you want to.
When I entered Spain a few weeks ago with my wife (travelling on her Canadian passport) they waved me through with a cursory glance, but stamped her passport on entry and exit.
I’d be kind of annoyed if I went to the trouble and expense of acquiring a passport and then the border guard didn’t bother to look at it. If it’s not important then don’t require me to have one. And if it is important enough to be mandatory, then do your job and pay some attention.