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Area of 29 European states without mutual border controls
David Icke has faced venue cancellations, content removals and a two‑year travel ban from the Netherlands tied to authorities’ assessment that his presence risks public order; platforms such as YouTub...
US citizens arriving to the Schengen Area in 2025 cannot simply refuse to have their biometric data collected and stored in the EU Entry/Exit System (EES); under the EES rules as implemented in 2025. ...
US travelers cannot reasonably opt out of the European Union’s new Entry/Exit System (EES) in 2025: the EES requires non‑EU nationals to provide biometric data — facial images and fingerprints — at ex...
EU law makes biometric data capture mandatory for first-time EES registration of most non‑EU short‑stay travellers; multiple official and reputable reports state that refusal to provide required finge...
EU authorities launched the biometric Entry/Exit System (EES) on 12 October 2025, requiring most non‑EU nationals to have facial images and fingerprints recorded at first entry; subsequent crossings m...
The Entry/Exit System (EES) replaces passport stamping with biometric records — — for non-EU short-stay travellers across the Schengen area and associated states, with the EU commission scheduling pha...
The available reporting and guidance from September–October 2025 show there are when it comes to the EU Entry/Exit System (EES) biometric collection: fingerprints and a facial image are required for n...
The EU's new Entry/Exit System (EES) will require from U.S. travelers entering the Schengen area, replacing passport stamps with biometric checks and electronic records, and will be rolled out from Oc...
Automated e‑passport gates using facial recognition are now widespread: the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, France (PARAFE) and many Schengen points, the United States at many ports of entry, ...
Accredited diplomats and certain diplomatic family members can be exempt from EES (Entry/Exit System) biometric registration in some circumstances, with multiple outlets reporting “diplomats travellin...
David Icke has been repeatedly involved in high-profile controversies and legal disputes spanning copyright and business litigation, immigration entry bans enforced through European courts, libel and ...
David Icke has been the subject of multiple legal actions and sanctions: he settled a libel/defamation dispute with Canadian lawyer-activist Richard Warman, paying damages reported at £117,000 in an o...
Two recent rulings of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) have become central in debates over biometric retention tied to travel and policing: the CJEU confirmed the Entry/Exit System (E...
David Icke’s COVID-era messaging mixed long-standing grand conspiracies with explicit falsehoods about SARS‑CoV‑2 (for example, linking COVID to 5G, denying the virus model, and claiming vaccines equa...
EU rules now in force require biometric collection (fingerprints and facial images) from non‑EU, visa‑exempt travellers the first time they cross into the Schengen area under the Entry/Exit System (EE...
US citizens will be subject to the EU Entry/Exit System (EES) and will generally be required to register biometric and biographical data when entering the Schengen Area for short stays; there is that ...
The EU’s Entry/Exit System (EES), launched in October 2025, mandates collection of biometric identifiers — facial images and fingerprints — from non‑EU visitors, including Americans, and is reshaping ...
US citizens traveling to most European Union and Schengen-area countries will be required to provide biometric data——under the EU’s new Entry/Exit System (EES) which began phased implementation in Oct...
The EU’s Entry/Exit System (EES) requires most non-EU travelers, including US citizens, to provide when crossing external Schengen borders beginning in October 2025; refusal may lead to denial of entr...
is a Europe-wide electronic travel authorisation for nationals of visa-exempt countries who plan short visits to participating European states; it will cover 30 countries (the 29 Schengen members plus...