Airport chaos, delays as E.U. debuts biometric border system
SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Supported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTLong Lines, Missed Flights: Travel Chaos Follows E.U.’s New Passport ControlsThe biometric system for non-E.U. citizens is causing long delays and short tempers at airports. Officials say the rocky rollout will get better and will improve security.Listen · 7:57 min Share full article363Waits for passport control at Lisbon’s airport peaked at six hours last winter, but now top out at a quarter of that, officials said.
- ▪SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access.
- ▪When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Supported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTLong Lines, Missed Flights: Travel Chaos Follows E.U.’s New Passport ControlsThe biometric system for non-E.U. citizens is causing long delays a
- ▪Officials say the rocky rollout will get better and will improve security.Listen · 7:57 min Share full article363Waits for passport control at Lisbon’s airport peaked at six hours last winter, but now top out at a quarter of that, officials
NYT — World files mainly under world. We currently carry 505 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
inspect →
Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | NYT — World |
| Canonical URL | https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/world/europe/eu-passport-control-chaos.html |
| Publication time | Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:00:32 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-04T09:05:42.306Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-04T09:05:42.741Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | UQAXLd_3S4B7 · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Supported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTLong Lines, Missed Flights: Travel Chaos Follows E.U.’s New Passport ControlsThe biometric system for non-E.U. citizens is causing long delays and short tempers at airports. Officials say the rocky rollout will get better and will improve security.Listen · 7:57 min Share full article363Waits for passport control at Lisbon’s airport peaked at six hours last winter, but now top out at a quarter of that, officials said. Credit...Armando Franca/Associated PressBy Jeanna Smialek and Koba RyckewaertReporting from BrusselsAug.
…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at NYT — World.
Discussion
0 commentsMore from NYT — World
