EU’s biometric passport checks could lead to limits for Eurostar passenger numbers

The European Union’s planned Entry/Exit System (EES) could cause hour-long queues for the Eurostar railway service in the UK and force the company to limit the number of passengers traveling to the continent, the high-speed rail service has warned.

Eurostar says that the new EES checks at the rail station are “severely inadequate” and has written to members of the UK Parliament and the European Scrutiny Committee, The Guardian reports. Eurostar services to Belgium, France and the Netherlands …

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