# EES News - Weekly EU Entry/Exit System Updates | EESQueue

> Weekly EES news: European Commission decisions, airline hotspot warnings, and the Schengen airports where border queues got better or worse. Dated and sourced.

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# EES news

What changed at the EU Entry/Exit System border this week — Commission decisions, airline warnings, and airports where the queues got better or worse. Each update links to the airport pages it names.

9 August 2026

## [Palma raises border police headcount ~52%, average EES wait eases to 30 minutes](https://eesqueue.com/news/palma-border-police-headcount-average-wait-eases)

Palma de Mallorca has cut its average EES wait to about 30 minutes after a large increase in border police staffing, though peaks still reach 70 minutes.

26 July 2026

## [Rome Fiumicino says EES tripled UK border times; Ryanair names Athens a blackspot](https://eesqueue.com/news/rome-fiumicino-border-times-triple-athens-named-blackspot)

Fiumicino reports average UK-traveller border time has gone from 7 to 20 minutes, and Ryanair adds Athens to its list of airports still seeing 2-3 hour EES queues.

19 July 2026

## [Ryanair expands its EES hotspot warning from 7 airports to 15](https://eesqueue.com/news/ryanair-expands-ees-hotspot-list-to-15-airports)

Ryanair adds Lisbon, Madrid, Lanzarote, Milan Malpensa, Verona, Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt Hahn and Budapest to its EES hotspot list, and Copenhagen's documented peak is revised up to 3 hours.

12 July 2026

## [Commission rejects a full EES suspension for summer 2026](https://eesqueue.com/news/commission-rejects-full-ees-suspension-for-summer)

Brussels calls a full suspension "not possible" and "not needed" after airlines and airports warn of 4-5 hour queues; nine countries ask to extend the flexibility mechanism past 6 September.

See the [live wait times](https://eesqueue.com/ees-wait-times) for what is happening right now, or the [worst airports for EES delays](https://eesqueue.com/worst-ees-queues) for documented peaks.