Software glitch forces manual passport checks at Brussels Airport, causing hours-long queues
Runway mix-up at Brussels Airport narrowly avoids catastrophe, prompts safety review
European Parliament to vote this week on ‘safe country’ rules that could reshape asylum processing in Belgium
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Technical glitch knocks out e-gates at Brussels Airport, triggering manual passport checks and hour-long queues
Automated passport gates at Brussels Airport’s non-Schengen pier have been out of service since Friday evening, forcing all travellers through manual booths and producing queues of up to an hour. The airport is telling passengers on long-haul flights to arrive three hours early while federal police race to fix the fault. The incident underlines concerns about system resilience ahead of the EU’s new biometric Entry/Exit System and could disrupt corporate itineraries in the coming days.
Pro-Kurdish march closes streets around EU Quarter, prompting police advice for business travellers
About 150 Kurdish activists marched from Patrice-Lumumba Square to the European Parliament on 7 February, forcing rolling road closures across Brussels’ EU Quarter. Police diversions delayed airport transfers, public transport and hotel arrivals—an inconvenience for business travellers and assignees working around the Belgian capital’s main corporate district.