Clarissa Ward
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326 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 4 Jun
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But again, there were so many clear inefficiencies along the way.
I have already given my fingerprints now when I visited Romania, when I visited Spain, when I visited France, when I visited Holland, and again when I arrived in Lisbon,
why do I need to give my fingerprints a sixth time when I'm leaving Lisbon?
The whole point of the system is supposed to be that once you're registered, you don't need to keep giving all of this biometric information.
So clearly there are some real gaps in how the system is supposed to function and how it is functioning in reality.
No, and what's extraordinary is when you talk to people who work in these airports, they'll tell you this is a nightmare.
It's no fun for them.
It's not like they're enjoying the sights of all these people in the hot summer months waiting for hours on end, some with small babies on their hips.
But there's nothing they can do about it.
And I've been told by border control in a number of different European airports,
We're fed up.
It's not working.
We keep telling them it's not working, but we've just been told that we have to keep doing it.
Now, we know that some countries are electing to waive the system, particularly now that we're heading into these peak tourism months, but many others appear just determined to keep plodding on.
It's going to cause chaos and it's going to cost money.
Money for all the flights that people are missing that then have to be rescheduled.
Money as well, because in the long run, this isn't just about, and I completely understand why people in Ireland would be feeling pretty smug, especially about the Brits.
But this is people from everywhere in the world, from the US and Canada to, you know, wherever, Japan, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, everybody is in the same boat.
If you don't have an EU passport...
you are subject to this mayhem.
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