EU Fingerprint Checks for Tourists Delayed Indefinitely
New EU border rules which would force British tourists to submit fingerprints and facial biometrics have been postponed indefinitely. The Telegraph has more.
Brussels will now investigate the possibility of a new approach, which would involve phasing in the system gradually over time. The rules had been due to come into force on November 10.
It is the third time it has been postponed, but this time no new deadline has been set.
The European Commission said the deadline for the Entry/Exit System (EES) would be delayed a month before it was due to come into force after a meeting of EU interior ministers in Luxembourg on Thursday.
Germany, France and the Netherlands had said they were not ready to roll out the new electronic replacement for wet-stamping the passports of non-EU citizens entering the Schengen Zone.
Ylva Johansson, the Commissioner for Home Affairs, said there were “some concerns when it comes to the resilience of the system”.
The three countries are responsible for 40% of all inward traffic in to the EU and have faced IT difficulties.
There have also been warnings that the EES will lead to long queues when first introduced because of the need to submit the biometric data.
The latest delay comes just days after Spain warned the U.K. the new rules would mean a hard border with Gibraltar and urged London to cave to its demands over a post-Brexit deal making the Rock part of Schengen.
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Do they ‘wet stamp’ the passports of thousands of non eu citizens coming from North and sub Saharan Africa? No? That’s because their identity documents and mobile phones are getting ‘wet’ at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea!
Would I be right in thinking that ALL the illegals are photographed and fingerprinted before being conveyed to their four star accommodation?
It’s amazing how many people entering Europe/uk are as black as your hat and claim they’re from Syria or Afghanistan and are only 12 (with a full beard!)
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They aren’t in Ireland. If you lose your passport during your flight ( extremely frequent occurrence) you are taken straight to an IPAS centre ie accommodation.
They don’t want to give their fingerprints in France, if they do it means they have given up trying to get to the UK.
I don’t understand why they don’t simply change that – if you arrive with no ID, you get absolute minimum, we deportation asap, if you have some ID, we can talk at least… surely that would change the game?
Deportation to where? If you have no ID, how does anyone know where you should be sent to? You could try to send them back to whatever country they were last in, if you can find out which one that was, but good luck getting that country to accept them back. This is the problem we face. They are invaders. For a while at least, you probably need to adopt quite forceful measures that will have “good thinking people” up in arms.
Sink the boats, let them drown, dump them on a beach in France and piss the French off, or put them in a camp somewhere – but once they are in your camp, what do you do with them? Nobody wants them – why would they?
This here is just pure Clown World, but an accurate illustration of where we’re at. Seriously, most of Europe is so doomed if this is what’s happening. I did have to laugh at the ”his skills are to be a pirate” part though, especially with regards to his peg leg..I wonder if he can get his hands on an African grey parrot too; ”The Kingdom of Denmark will pay for an “integration plan” and a prosthetic leg for a Nigerian pirate after granting him residency, two years after he attacked the Danish Navy off the coast of Africa. Nigerian Lucky Frances will receive taxpayer-funded aid in attaining employment and education to help him “integrate” into Denmark after being brought to the country in 2021 when he lost his leg in a firefight with the Danish navy after his band of pirates attacked the Esbern Snare frigate off the coast of Africa, the local BT newspaper reports. Not only did the African pirate avoid imprisonment for attacking the Danish sailors, despite being found guilty, but he was also granted a residence permit to remain in the country earlier this year. Adding insult to injury, a court ordered that the state pay for the Nigerian national… Read more »
Yes I get that’s a problem, however being stuck in limbo surely should be some deterrent, not able to do anything
You would hope so. Any government that did this would have to hold its nerve for a while, until more stopped coming, and also hope that the people you’re detaining would eventually get fed up and tell you where they were from (and you’d have to hope wherever they are from would take them back).
I think the chances of this happening are zero, sadly.
I agree, however I think we have to avoid the no id being acceptable… if you want a chance of getting something, then you need id. Without it, you get absolute minimum for as short a time as possible
“Acceptable”
What sanction do we have? “Absolute minimum for as short a time as possible” – so they get fed and housed, for a while, in some camp somewhere, then what? Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying we should do nothing, just pointing out it’s not easy and there will be consequences – consequences that the general public and our leaders do not want to face.
Probably right – echr would prob object as well – reason to leave?
I agree we should leave but it’s just cover, an excuse
What is lacking is the political will
And I can’t see that changing anytime soon
Off-T https://open.substack.com/pub/chemtrails/p/we-are-in-grave-danger-food-and-gas Periodically I come across historically accurate information that, if I hadn’t read it, I wouldn’t have believed it. Here, I’m talking about wartime rationing in America in the 1940s. It was fundamentally not required. For example, petrol rationing. At that time, USA controlled 2/3rd of the world’s oil supply (which fact goes a long way to explaining why America matured into a car-based culture and why conurbations developed by expanding outwards rather than vertically, as in Europe). If you don’t already know about this period of US history, I think it’s likely that you’ll find this jaw-dropping. The writer presumably came across it & realised its significance. Thank you. The Great Reset, with it’s infamous prediction that, in 2030, “You’ll own nothing and be happy”, requires The Great Taking (as detailed by David Rogers Webb’s free pdf book of the same name). The state requires that you be impoverished because that forces dependence upon the state, whereby you will be required to comply with various things that they’d struggle otherwise to impose. Reading this, I realised that The Evil Perpetrators have at least two additional tools for control that I hadn’t previously fully appreciated. First, rationing. I have… Read more »
The EU foregoing an opportunity to have us all digitally catalogued?
I do not beeleeeeeve it. They must have something “better” planned, even more sinister.
Spain – Paging Sir Francis Drake – please call your office.
“…a post-Brexit deal making the Rock part of Schengen.”
I hope the nitwits yapping about loss of free movement because we left the EU take note – never was to do with the EU but the Schengen Agreement of 1986 (I think) which the UK and Ireland declined to join.
Border controls are now in place within the Schengen zone because… terrorism, immigration. Exactly why UK refused to join and about which it warned. But the smug Euroloons went ahead anyway.
Ylva Johansson, the EU Commissioner for Home Affairs is a migrant enthusiast from Sweden. She should really be refered to as the EU Commissioner for Migration. However she is standing down at the end of October to be replaced by one Magnus Brunner from Austria (assuming the EU Parliament approves his appointment.). His job title will be Commissioner for Internal Affairs AND Migration. One of his many tasks will be to oversee the implementation of the EU’s Pact on Migration and Asylum.
This system guarantees migration into Europe is permanent and continuous with the arivals being distributed to ALL EU Member states whether they want them or not; and not mattering at all if the migrants themselves don’t want to go there. Ho Hum. Large numbers of ’em will undoubtedly move to France ready to get on a boat to the the UK.
Liebour party will do nothing about this – their policy is NOT to ‘smash the gangs’ but to ‘smash society’.