By Matthew Sellers
Publication Date: 2026-11-09 13:43:00
Still smarting from this summer’s huge waits in Europe? The EU’s IT agency is taking the companies that built the Entry/Exit System to court
The horrendous airport queues of summer 2026 have finally turned into a court case. The European Union is suing IBM, Atos and Leonardo over long waits – but these are the years of delays in building the Entry/Exit System (EES), the biometric border check that left British holidaymakers queuing for hours across southern Europe. (Not you, Greece, you were awesome because you turned the whole system off for us).
The claim was brought by EU-Lisa, the Tallinn-based agency that runs the bloc’s large IT systems. According to the Financial Times, which revealed the case, it was filed at Harju county court, Estonia’s largest…
