What's wrong with verifiable credentials? It's an important thing to have it seems? Your passport or a bank card are verifiable credentials, or at least are designed to be.

It's an EU thing, overcomplicated an not sovereign:

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/sites/spaces/EB...

Oh dear, web 3.0, blockchain. Do we get our sovereign monkey NFT too?

Verifiable credentials (VCs) are W3C standards and do not involve blockchains. Nor does Web 3.0.

Tell this your parlamenentarian.