Three months after its entry into force, the new European Entry/Exit System (EES) has already “significantly strengthened border security” in the EU, according to the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs in a statement published on Sunday 18 January.
Since it was set up last October, the EES has recorded almost 20 million entries and exits and has led to “nearly 10,000 refusals of entry, preventing 10,000 illegal arrivals”, according to the...