Spanish airports told to ‘ease the pain’ for British visitors as EES queues grow
Gibraltarians exempted from Spain’s new passport-control system—legal basis unclear
Queues Stretch Across Spain as Mass Regularisation Scheme Enters Second Week
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Spain Tweaks New Biometric Border Checks to Ease Holiday-Season Bottlenecks
Facing Easter-week delays under the EU Entry/Exit System, Spain has authorised airports to divert overflow passengers to manual stamping and to coordinate slot times to ease congestion. The tweaks are temporary but highlight the learning curve for the new biometric regime that affects all non-EU arrivals, including British business travellers. Companies should warn staff to budget extra time and to complete biometric enrolment on their first trip to Spain.
French Conservative Wants Spain ‘Ostracised’ over Migration Plan, Prompting EU Free-Movement Row
French presidential contender Bruno Retailleau has threatened to ostracise Spain and reinstate border controls over Madrid’s new migrant-regularisation decree, but EU officials and French centrists say such a move would be legally dubious and economically self-defeating. While the risk to business mobility remains low for now, companies with cross-border operations should watch how migration politics play into the 2027 French race.