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Six months ago, I was looking forward to this moment: being able to tell you that, as of Friday 10 April 2026, the EU entry-exit system is in full operation across all Schengen area frontiers, from Canary Island airports to the Norwegian border with Russia in the Arctic. I wanted to write that 100 per cent of third-country nationals, including the British, are being processed in accordance with “the most modern digital border management system in the world”.
