{"id":490827,"date":"2025-10-11T11:10:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T11:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/490827\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T11:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T11:10:15","slug":"overflow-sites-lined-up-in-case-ess-brings-port-of-dover-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/490827\/","title":{"rendered":"Overflow sites lined up in case ESS brings Port of Dover delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alex Norris, minister for border security and asylum, said the government &#8220;worked closely with our European partners to ensure the rollout goes as smoothly as possible&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Transport minister Keir Mather said the government&#8217;s priority was to &#8220;minimise disruption for travellers and hauliers, particularly at our busiest border crossings&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Port of Dover requested its EES kiosks do not initially require users to answer questions about their trip such as whether they have sufficient funds or a return ticket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Those requests were passed on by the UK government to EU officials but no confirmation has been received, it is understood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Norris, minister for border security and asylum, said the government &#8220;worked closely with our European partners to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,1699],"class_list":{"0":"post-490827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-european-union"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115355230340648525","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}