{"id":19304,"date":"2026-05-08T12:44:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/19304\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T12:44:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:44:37","slug":"at-last-spain-takes-action-over-new-european-union-entry-system-after-long-delays-at-palma-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/19304\/","title":{"rendered":"At last! Spain takes action over new European Union entry system after long delays at Palma airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.majorcadailybulletin.com\/tag\/Spain.html?utm_source=Inline-tag&amp;utm_medium=internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spain<\/a> is actively adjusting its implentation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.majorcadailybulletin.com\/tag\/European+Union.html?utm_source=Inline-tag&amp;utm_medium=internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">European Union<\/a>\u00b4s new Entry\/Exit (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.majorcadailybulletin.com\/tag\/EES.html?utm_source=Inline-tag&amp;utm_medium=internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EES<\/a>), which went live on April 10, 2026, to manage significant border delays. While the system is mandatory, officials are tweaking processes\u2014such as allowing hybrid manual checks during surges\u2014to ease bottlenecks for non-EU travellers, especially in busy airports like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.majorcadailybulletin.com\/tag\/Palma+airport.html?utm_source=Inline-tag&amp;utm_medium=internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Palma airport<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Spain&#8217;s Interior Ministry is implementing &#8220;adjustments, not a suspension,&#8221; including tweaking how biometric data is captured to speed up processing times. Some airports may use a hybrid model, switching from EES kiosks to manual stamping during peak surges to prevent severe congestion<\/p>\n<p> The rollout has caused significant queues at Spanish airports, leading to calls for suspension by local politicians, though the Ministry deems the rollout &#8220;positive&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> While some reports speculate about potential suspension of the system in some areas, the official stance is that EES is fully operational at all external borders.<\/p>\n<p> Non-EU travellers (like British citizens) should expect to have fingerprints and facial images taken, or have their passports scanned, replacing traditional manual stamps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spain is actively adjusting its implentation of the European Union\u00b4s new Entry\/Exit (EES), which went live on April&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8625,333,5478,605,1393,2519,17],"class_list":["post-19304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-ees","tag-european-union","tag-flight-delays","tag-latest-headlines","tag-palma-airport","tag-passengers","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}