In order to better control irregular migration, the European Union (EU) wants to introduce a new electronic entry system. This must automatically record which non-EU citizens enter a Member State or, for example, with fingerprints and facial photos.
The database must then indicate whether people are longer than allowed in the Schengen area. In the future, Member States must have access to travel dates and residence status of the third state that hears in real time, as stated in a message from Brussels.
An introductory phase of six months is planned: in the first two months the states can still serve the system without biometric data. From the third month at least 35 percent of the border crossings must run through the new system. The full change should take place at the last minute after six months. Until then it is also stamped manually.
Brunner: must close existing gaps
EU migration commissioner Magnus Brunner (ÖVP) said that the new system should help close existing gaps. A specific start date is not yet determined. A separate decision of the committee is still needed for this. The agreement concluded between the European Parliament and the governments of the Member States on Monday must also be formally confirmed by the Council and the Parliament.
The goal is to better control irregular migration and to make it more difficult to identify, it said.
Migrant drowned in the English canal
It was only in the night on Monday that a migrant died again after the capsis of a busy refugee boat in the English canal. 61 other migrants were saved from the French coast of emergency. Among them was a mother with a child who was taken to a hospital with hypothermia.
Last year a total of 78 people died about the English canal for attempted crossings on inflatable boats. About 36,800 people came to Great Britain in 2024.
Source: Krone
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