EU changes course on EES as nine countries further delay biometric checks

If you are travelling into the Schengen area from outside the EU, you may have been expecting the new biometric border checks to become unavoidable this month. Instead, the rules have taken another turn. Nine Schengen countries have told Brussels they are not ready to fully enforce the EU’s Entry/Exit System (EES), and the European Commission has reportedly agreed to let them delay the checks… Source