Airports admit hated EU border system is NOT working just weeks before summer holidays begin

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Airports admit hated EU border system is NOT working just weeks before summer holidays begin.

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The EU's Entry/Exit System (EES) is "not working fine", the head of a European airport trading body has declared, just weeks before the summer holidays begin.Stefan Schulte, the president of ACI Europe, said the EES, which requires passengers to register their biometric information when entering most European countries, was not up to par.Mr Schulte said politicians needed to "stop pretending...

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that EES is working just fine.

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It is not".He told an industry event in Prague: "Passengers are queueing for hours at peak traffic times and I just do not know how we will be able to cope in the coming weeks with the expected increase in traffic." TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say The system requires passengers to register provide both fingerprints and face scans for travellers outside the European Economic Area, which is then checked as they cross the borders of the Schengen free travel zone.Just last week, a Ryanair flight left without 50 passengers in Greece as flyers were stuck in a...

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