Anonymousabout 2 hours ago
The EU's Entry/Exit System (EES), which requires fingerprints and facial scans from all non-EU travelers entering the Schengen zone, became fully operational on April 10, 2026 — four years behind its original 2022 deadline and after at least €634 million in major IT contracts. While the European Commission points to 45 million registered border crossings and thousands of entry refusals as early successes, the rollout has been marred by seven-hour airport queues, system crashes, and unresolved questions about the privacy implications of centralizing biometric data on hundreds of millions of travelers in a single EU-wide database.