{"id":89523,"date":"2026-05-23T16:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89523"},"modified":"2026-05-23T16:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:45:18","slug":"france-suspends-eu-border-checks-as-tourists-swelter-in-hours-long-dover-queues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/23\/france-suspends-eu-border-checks-as-tourists-swelter-in-hours-long-dover-queues\/","title":{"rendered":"France suspends EU border checks as tourists swelter in hours-long Dover queues"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-89524\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Dover-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Dover-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Dover-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Dover.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>French authorities have suspended new EU border checks as hours-long queues have formed for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/holidays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">holidaymakers\u00a0<\/a>at the Port of Dover &#8211; all while temperatures hit<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/weather-heatwave-met-office-live-37189700\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">\u00a0heatwave levels<\/a> in the UK. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/travel\/news\/france-suspends-eu-border-checks-as-tourists-swelter-in-hours-long-dover-queues\/ar-AA23SHD9?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&amp;cvid=77d2c2d9d0714c7cb84e25b88d305354&amp;ei=19\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>French authorities have suspended new EU border checks as hours-long queues have formed for\u00a0holidaymakers\u00a0at the Port of Dover &#8211; all while temperatures&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Dover.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89525,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89523\/revisions\/89525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}