London, May 23, 2026 (AFP) - EU automated border system suspended at Dover amid bank holiday chaos

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2026-05-23

French authorities suspended the European Union's new digital border check system at Britain's Port of Dover on Saturday, as traffic piled up at the UK ferry terminal at the start of the long weekend. Travellers were facing wait times of over two hours at the terminal in southern England to get the cross-Channel ferry to France, the Port of Dover said in traffic updates. It said it was the "first peak period" since the introduction of the so-call......

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