The European Union has again relaxed its controversial entry-exit system (EES) for at least nine countries to stop huge delays at borders.
In a climbdown by Brussels, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Greece, Malta, Portugal, Italy and Switzerland are understood to have been allowed to delay full implementation of EES to ‘maintain border fluidity’.
The system requires British and other non-EU citizens to provide fingerprints and a facial scan when they enter the 29 countries in the Schengen zone.
After years of delays, the EU’s flagship immigration controls began their roll-out last October. It was thought they would be fully in force by
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