To Holiday In Europe, Brits Will Have To Provide Their Fingerprints

Travellers face enormous queues while entering Europe from next autumn with the introduction of strict post-Brexit border controls.

British passport holders will have to go through fingerprint checks and face scans as part of the new EU Entry/Exit System (EES). It will replace the stamping of passports, which started after Brexit when the United Kingdom became a ‘third country’ to the EU.

The new system will check every passenger’s name and biometric data when they travel into an EU country. It was expected to be rolled out earlier this year but has been postponed several times.

Some countries have voiced concerns about how much time the process will add to queues at EU borders, with the Slovenian government saying it takes ‘up to four times longer’.

According to a newspaper outlet, despite these worries, EES will be introduced on October 6, 2024.

Each time tourists attempt to cross into the continent, they will have to show a facial image and provide four fingerprints.

Personal data including first name, surname, date of birth, nationality, sex, travel document and the three-letter country code will all be required, with only children under 12 excused.

Austria has said processing times would be ‘double compared to the current situation’, while Croatia warned checks would ‘certainly be significantly longer’.

French officers will carry out EES border checks at the Port of Dover, Folkestone for Eurotunnel and St Pancreas International for Eurostar.

In a report released earlier this year, French public finance watchdog Cour des Comptes predicted queues at the UK-France border will at least double when the EES is launched in 2024.

The Port of Dover, which has regularly seen lengthy delays resulting from post-border checks, said the latest system could lengthen checks on cars from 45 seconds to as long as 10 minutes.

Port chief Doug Bannister was reported by a newspaper outlet as saying that even at the busiest times right now, with new post-Brexit rules, passport checks are taking 45 to 90 seconds per car.

He said with the pre-registration involved, a car with a family of four or five in it could take up to ten minutes.

He added that the government should be urgently discussing with their French and EU counterparts how this is going to work.

Eurotunnel warned it could take as much as six minutes longer to process each car boarding its trains.

This is absurd, we don’t bother checking illegals coming into the country but we’ll check legal citizens going on holiday. The retribution continues.

Perhaps we should be doing the same to EU citizens who try to enter the United Kingdom, and let’s face it, less criticism was made when we landed in 1944.

This system will simply be a digital health passport along with compulsory jabs and penalties. Then it will be a chip. Benjamin Franklin said that those who would give up their essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither Liberty nor safety, but we will do it just for a week in Spain.

We also need to do the same for those who enter our country from elsewhere on dinghies, no scanning, no entry.

We need a government that puts the interests of its citizens first, but sadly we have no possibility of that in the United Kingdom.

We in the United Kingdom need to adopt this for illegal migration and return those without the correct ID to their port of entry.

They will take fingerprints and scan faces, what they won’t do is remove the scavengers from entering our country.