From Wednesday 2 April 2025, European visitors to Britain must buy an Electronic Travel Authorisation before they travel. Here is a plain-language guide to the new ETA: what it costs, who is exempt, how to apply and how it fits alongside the EU's own incoming border checks.
The Port of Dover says the EU's Entry/Exit System will add only minutes to motorists' journeys, not the hours some had feared. A new registration compound and an AI-monitored ‘continental corridor' are central to the plan.
Since leaving the EU, British travellers are treated as third-country nationals at Schengen borders, with stamped passports, a 90-day limit and, soon, biometric checks. Here is a plain guide to what is changing and when.
Holding an Irish passport can spare you much of the post-Brexit border red tape that British travellers now face. Here is how an EU passport works at the frontier and who is exempt from the new checks.
The boss of the Port of Dover has warned that the EU's incoming Entry/Exit System could leave Western Europe's busiest passenger port unable to cope beyond Easter, as motorists face fingerprint and facial checks under a new canopy.
As European travel recovered from the pandemic, industry leaders gathered to tackle the biggest questions facing the sector — from digital visas and the smooth rollout of ETIAS and EES to sustainability and post-Brexit border friction.