EU sues IBM and two European firms over troubled entry/exit border system

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The EU’s IT agency EU-Lisa has filed a lawsuit against IBM, Atos, and Leonardo over their work on the bloc’s delayed entry/exit border-management system. The system launched in October 2025 and has been associated with passenger delays.

Lawsuit filed last year against IBM, Atos and Leonardo after delays to passengers blamed on the system, first reported in the FT The EU has filed a lawsuit against IBM and two other companies involved in its troubled border-management system, an internal document has revealed. The bloc’s IT agency, EU-Lisa, filed a case last year against IBM, the French IT company Atos and Italian defence contractor Leonardo, the three members of a consortium to implement and maintain the EU’s entry/exit system, which was launched in October 2025. Continue reading...