The European Union’s implementation of its new digital border check system, known as the Entry/Exit System (EES), is causing significant delays at various European airports. Designed to register non-EU travelers using biometric data, including facial scans and fingerprints, the system aims to enhance security and track stays more efficiently. However, the initial rollout and testing phases have led to lengthy queues and operational challenges at major transit hubs, raising concerns among aviation authorities and passengers regarding ongoing travel disruptions.
- The European Union is introducing the Entry/Exit System (EES) to automate border controls for non-EU citizens entering the Schengen Area.
- The new process requires travelers to register biometric data, including fingerprints and facial scans, at the border.
- The additional time required to collect and process this data has resulted in significant queues and delays at major airports.
- While the system aims to replace manual passport stamping and enhance security, aviation officials have raised concerns about airport capacity and readiness.
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This is nonsense about fingerprints. Fingerprints and biometric registration is standard all over the world and does not cause such delays even in Africa.
Dubai implemented a similar system ages ago. It was perfect. Everything was smooth and hardly caused any disruptions and they had enough manual staff around to supplement the E system
Europe should have learned from Dubai, instead of launching a faulty system prematurely
I had to literally grab people's passport in Milan, Italy & scan it for them. You have to hold your passport just right /steadily on the machine. There was no staff helping.
No surprises。EU regulations ，by Brussels bureaucrats，always lead to delays。
So it's only for non EU citizens? Not a problem then.
Security is very important
I trust that Brits aren't complaining and are happily waiting in the long queues that they voted for.
Take a boat. Passports aren't required, entry is automatic and you get free accomodation and passage to your next destination.
Why does this always happen in Europe only?
The EU is such a dystopian joke.
If you want to “control immigration”, how about stopping the boats instead of making tourists miserable!
It will take time to settle issues; right now, even the officials don't know what to do, how to do in certain circumstances.
Sounds like management issue, they know the flights, they know how many passengers will come and they should allocate adequate staffing. Or the lack of staff training and the process is too slow.
Another example of uselessness of EU bureaucracy. How could we ever compete with China or USA?
End of European Union 🇪🇺
10:52 no there were no good reasons. For a hammer everything looks like a nail.
This was to copy the United States. As an American citizen I got to tell you, the last thing Europe should have done was copy the United States. Surveillance society is not what you want in Europe. We in the United States don't want it in the United States either, but they snuck it in, by telling us how it would increase our security. It's always for security, or for the kids, instead of the real reason, which is to surveill you
Liberal politics has no boundaries when it comes to control and political domination … A threat to the US Constitution ? and a potential conflict ?
If a new system doesn't work, you fall back to the legacy system. You don't keep going with the broken system.
4:11 ROTFLOL – that was an Easyjet flight from Milan to Manchester back in April 2026. Brits voted to leave the EU in 2016 because they wanted to "re-take control of their borders". They are getting exactly what they wanted. They should be holidaying in Skegness or Blackpool.
However did she get this job with a voice like that?
Everyone here is talking about western EU because nobody's coming to vacation on the Eastern side. We never have these kinds of problems here xD
Annoying, definitely, but given climate change, people should maybe rethink their vacation habits. I have nothing against flying but if we could reduce slime by about 30% it would really help the environment. And don't expect heads of state to do it for you
Yesterday spent 90 mins at Nice arrivals passport control! There were three passport officers but hundreds of passangers and few were allowed to use the biometric system.
Demonstrates clearly how much Brussels bureaucrats think they are here to serve the public!
Autocracy first then tyranny?
Brits chose brexit and now cry queing at border controle😂
But this is ok when USA, England, China, Israel, Japan, Australia and list go on, treat you like threat, animal, and walking wallet? Taste your own medicine. Make it even harder and more expensive. Equal treatment is unbearable? Ha, ha, ha.
It was clear that it was coming. In the USA it is the same. The airports fail! Not the system!
We want to keep our borders safe from foreigners… Simple.
EU is too inefficient, bureaucratic and wasting too much tax payer's money.
EU, UN, IOC, FIFA all are not working, corrupted and bureaucratic.
Many national governments are not working well, but those international organizations are absolutely NOT working, corrupted and bureaucratic.
People wanted immigration control. This is it, what people wanted. Waiting is a minor inconvenience if you want proper immigration checks to end this madness in Europe.
So, it only effects Non EU Citizens? I could care less.
Lets face it, its the volume of British passengers arriving and leaving which is at the root of the delay. Can our dim politicians not work out a fix that aligns the systems of the EU and the UK?
It’s always “for your own good “
– 'Long has lord Denethor forseen this doom.'
– 'Forseen and done nothing!'
its just govt harrasment the undocumente have no such problems
Putt's Law: "Technology is dominated by two types of people, those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand."
bring back expensive tickets and fewer flights, this tourist madmess perhaps gets curbed and nature & locals take a breath
Oh no following the law takes time 😢😢😢😢 let's just take all the rules away yes
Must deal with the problems of illegal immigration by harassing and annoying tourists arriving in totally transparent port of entries with passports and visas.
It’s not “chaos”, you weirdos. It’s queues – the exact opposite of “chaos”! You as journalists would need to learn the meanings of words.
We're taking our country back…back to the time before Orville and Wilbur Wright conspired to destroyed vacation plans with their flying ideas. 😂
This is the government talking a non problem and hitting it with a sleg hammer……
Their system is idi0t and make average NA people turn off, from visit. EU should stop this whole thing for North americans but keep for those countrys wich are usuly do problems. Who wanna go to EU now lol.
It's so funny that the Brits complain, yet they are the one who wanted this system pre Brexit, and are the ones wanting to leave the Union. You guys could have simply stayed, preventing this for yourself. As for the others: you do this to us at your borders, so: suck it up
nah EU….here we go agan..sue the sh t out from EU if you loose your flight than, EU agan cannot solve their own insanity problems.. There is passport, than why the f they want extra photos fingerprints ? Total idi0ts.