Tag: Czech Republic
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EU develops wiretap platform using face recognition and geodata
The combination of different techniques will provide police authorities with a powerful surveillance tool. Persons can then be located in intercepted telephone conversations. The technology uses extensive metadata that people leave behind in public places or the Internet. In “Roxanne”,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Western Balkans: Clandestine connection to EU databases
Even without imminent EU accession, all third countries in South-East Europe will gradually be connected to European information systems. They will set up a fingerprint database along the lines of the EU model and, as in the Prüm Treaty, will…
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Eurodrone delayed by two years
The envisaged date for series production of a European long-range drone is not tenable. The German Ministry of Defence is to be responsible for the delay of at least two years. In the meantime, the project has been transferred to…
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EU Military in the Mediterranean: Mission accomplished
EUNAVFOR MED and Frontex now fly for Libyan Coast Guard The European Union only wants to observe sea rescue operations off Libya from the air and no longer send its own ships. The warships involved in the EUNAVFOR MED military…
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Airbus to build the “Eurodrone”
To fly in European airspace, large military drones need a „Detect and Avoid“ system. The “Eurodrone” could therefore be equipped with “American technology”. Only “one final production line” is to be set up for the the “Eurodrone”. This was announced…