The European Union is preparing to launch two new border management initiatives that will affect travel into Europe: the European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) and the Entry/Exit Systems (EES). An explainer of the two systems can be found here.

The original plan was to implement the systems in November of this year (2023), but Euronews has an update on implementation, and it looks like some elements of the systems will start implementation in late 2024 with the systems being fully operational in the first half of 2025.

Read the full Euronews article here.