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Despite Left's disapproval, entry/exit system for regulating entry flows of travellers into EU is adopted at European Parliament

Brussels, 25/10/2017 (Agence Europe)

After a certain amount of upheaval, MEPs managed to adopt, in Strasbourg on Wednesday 25 October, the entry/exit system project, which should help manage the entries into and exits out of the EU for third country travellers, whose passage at the EU’s external borders (both Schengen Area and non-Schengen Area countries) will be included in a new database.

Ahead of the vote, rapporteur Agustin Diaz de Mera (EPP, Spain), explained that their personal information, palm and facial prints and...