Schlagwort: Article 36
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Amendment of SIS II Regulation: Europol to coordinate proposals for alerts from third countries
The EU police agency is to receive lists of persons from foreign authorities and then have them alerted in the Schengen area for refusal of entry, arrest or observation. This legalises a questionable procedure that has long been practised. Can the US FBI put a Tunisian national on a European database for refusal of entry, […]
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German proposal: Prohibited EU secret service cooperation through the back door
Although this violates EU treaties, the police agency Europol is to cooperate closely with secret services. This involves lists of suspicious persons originating from third countries. The individuals listed there will then be discreetly searched for throughout Europe. In fact, the European Union has no competence to coordinate the secret services of the Member States. […]
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EU database: European domestic secret services increasingly hunt abroad
50,000 people are under secret surveillance throughout Europe by the French police, another 50,000 are to be checked during routine police operations or when crossing the EU border. In the field of secret services, this wanted list is headed by Germany. Requests for such clandestine observation can also come from third countries. More than 1,500 […]
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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 […]