Gavin Grey: UK correspondent on the new digital border checks launching in October

New digital border checks expected to hit millions of people travelling to and from Europe are set to come into effect this October.

The new Entry/Exit System will replace current passport stamping, requiring visitors from outside the EU to register fingerprints, a photo, and passport details to enter the region.

UK correspondent Gavin Grey says this is expected to be a 'complicated' process set to lead to delays.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Gevin gray Are UK correspondence with Uskevin Hallo.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hi there, Hella, Gvin.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
You guys have got these new digital border chicks coming
in jurick An. They're going to cause some trouble.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
I think there's every sign that there might be a
little bit of chaos at the start, and of course
it'll affect everyone entering or leaving the European Union. So
these new digital border checks really are going to replace
the current passport stamping system that requires everyone from outside
the European Union to register their fingerprints of photo and

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passport details in order to enter the block. So anyone
listening thinking of going to Europe over the next few
months need to watch out because this will be started
they think now, probably on the first of November of
this year. It is at least a year late, probably more,
and that was because the delays were put in place
because the technology was not yet ready. You can imagine

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across the twenty seven nations of the European Union how
complicated this is going to be. It isn't just the airports,
but the ports and the roads and the train stations.
It really is a massive piece of organization and citizens
of countries which are outside the EU, and of course
that now includes the UK will need to register their
biometric information in plenty of time, but there are huge

(01:18):
fears that is the EU aims to titan border security,
it may bring long, long delays to some days some travelers.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
What is going on with these fires at the French prisons.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, very very interesting. This so the French ministers are
now believing that the fires and in one instance automatic
gunfire outside of prison is a terrorist act and seven
prisons have been targeted right across the country, including nontern
near Paris, and it's been suggested that these attacks, which

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began at the weekend are a response to the government's
crackdown on drug trafficking. France's Anti terrorism Prosecutor's office launching
an investigation and in one instance saying a government opened
fire on the prison gate with a kalashnikov And there
are some threats of extreme silvere sentences for those taking part.

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But certainly those that work in the prison service are
saying that you know, we need more protection frankly, and
there should be greater government action to help protect our
prison staff. There are reports that some of them have
been threatened at their own home and also reports of
an arsenal attack at officers accommodation, so pretty severe stuff.

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And all this they reckon because of some kind of
a scare tactic, a retribution for the crackdown on drug trafficking.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Interesting, now, listen, what does this chep down this archict to,
you know, warrant becoming a saint?

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Ah Well, of course he's often been called the Spanish architect.
Anthony Gowdi has often been called a sort of God's architect.
He's most famously known in Barcelona, of course, where he's
managed to design the unfinished Sagrada Familiar, one of Spain's
most famous religious sites, one of its biggest tourist attractions.

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And now the Vatican has said that Pope Francis has
authorized a decree declaring that the Catalonian born architect should
be venerable, in other words, the early steps on the
road to a candidate for sainthood being formally canonized by
the Catholic Church. There's been a long campaign heather for
decades actually to have Goudi, who was a devout Catholic,

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recognized as a saint, and the Archbishop of Barcelona called
the News of Joy, and many others are saying about time.
He is, as I said, Goudi, very very famous and
even though he died in nineteen twenty six bizarrely after
being hit by a tram while walking to church, the
Vatican says it needs proof of a miracle that could

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be attributed to him in post death in order to
proceed with the beatification.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
Interesting. Hey, thanks very much, Gavin checked you in a
couple of days as Kevin Gray, our UK correspondent.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
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