I think you missed the point of the EU?
I had thought that with institutions like Frontex, the EU is supposed to protect and control its external borders ---- All of them.
And those benefits of Brexit continue…
I particularly like the idea of Boarder Control Posts (BCPs) at the border !?!
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Bound to reduce the numbers of foreign students attending UK public schools!
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And it will deter them from bringing their surfing equipment… 
… and collect a fee as well.
Which has the risk that once established, over the years its cost can be escalated.
Personally I think this has a lot to do with why it’s suddenly fashionable for countries to put in this visa-not-visa requirement.
Everybody’s at it though - including the UK (swhich is one of the reasons it is particularly ironic that many Brits are complaining about the imposition of EES and ETIAS).
I think it’s about controlling borders and, cynically, populations as well. The fee is incidental and unlikely to be the main driver.
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The stated aims are exactly that:
Convenience – Reduce border wait-times for travellers and streamline entry into EU member states.
Border efficiency - Improve border management for security personnel screening travellers upon arrival and departure from EU member states.
Transparency - Help the EU toward achieving its goal of a visa liberalisation policy that would enable citizens of more countries to enter the EU without the need of a Schengen Visa.
Immigration - Enable border authorities to spot migration irregularities and abuse of visa-free EU travel.
Security – Help EU member states strengthen their border security processes and procedures against crime and terrorism.
Funding – Provide an additional source of revenue for the EU budget as well as for managing visa-free travel of business, tourism and transit visitors.
You may well be right on that one. Some years ago we flew to the US via Toronto and had to pay 15$Canadian for a ‘Transfer Visa’ for each person. We were on the ground in Canada for about 90 minutes and just walked from one airport gate to another. Still, at least they didn’t charge us extra for sitting down at the boarding gate.
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I find it slightly amusing that "Manual stamping of passports “is time consuming…and does not allow a systematic detection of overstayers,” says the EU.” It might have made it easier if they stamped on the same page and near the entry stamp rather than another obscure page.
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True, but unless the passport is quite new they still have to flick through quite a few pages to find the stamp (which may not be very easy to read if the original stamper was low on ink. 
I believe the other reason for ETIAS is to weed out “undesirables” in advance rather than having to process and turn them away at the border, which also holds up other travellers.
Same as the US ESTA system basically.
Then again, terrorists are not going to travel on their own passport anyway so it’s perhaps a moot point.
Or maybe not?
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To the surprise of no-one!
The Folkestone end of the tunnel is a building site (even more than usual!). It’s difficult to believe it could be ready by 10 Nov. It was a useful spur to us, though, to get the move organised for the week before.
Concerned with how long the holdups might be, baring in mind I am back in France in November just after both of the possible start dates, considering taking friends for a day trip (lunch) in December as many hit their 70th birthdays so as to avoid ( hopefully) the likely queues in spring around any holiday time.
That is we hope, there will be separate fast track lanes for those who have already had finger prints and photos taken rather than random long queues of those who have and havent done the additional checks.
Seems France is not ready to play ball.
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Indeed, they are not the only ones. They should be inviting people to test it now.
Interpol are going to be very busy as I bet there will be more than a few persons of interest who travel and have limited brain cells about the far reaching effects of finger printing.
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I wonder how many cold cases it will re open?
Although one of the touted benefits is “increased security” I wonder if the dots have been joined up between the various agencies’ systems?
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I think we have been around long enough to answer that question but maybe its baby steps towards a more joined up thinking. That said its more dystopian control and looks again towards many sci fi films.
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