Schlagwort: Albania
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Frontex and the use of force
With the „Standing Corps“, the EU has an armed police force for the first time. The use of guns and other means of coercion is to be monitored by a „Committee on the Use of Force“, whose members are selected by the Frontex director. This reinforces the control deficit at the biggest EU agency. Until […]
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After Albania and Montenegro, Frontex now plans mission in Serbia
After Albania, the EU Border Agency has started an operation in Montenegro. The mission at the Croatian land border is to be extended to the sea borders. A status agreement with northern Macedonia is about to be signed, negotiations with Bosnia and Herzegovina are continuing. On 15 July the EU border agency Frontex launched a […]
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EU opens its biggest database for secret services from third countries
In the Schengen Information System, police and secret services may, inter alia, issue alerts for secret monitoring. Authorities from non-EU states can now have searches carried out via a detour. The German government remains silent about the exact role of its own secret service. The Schengen Information System (SIS) is the largest European database, which […]