Tag: EMSC
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Attack against helpers of refugees: New EU package criminalises aiding and abetting of “smuggling”
The EU Commission wants to take stronger action against “smugglers” with two new laws. The proposals jeopardise NGOs and the refugees themselves. The package is unlikely to be adopted before 2025. The agreement reached by the Council and Parliament on…
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Terrorism, crime, migration: Nine EU agencies active because of Ukraine war
Most of the action is being taken by Europol and Frontex, which together have deployed around 280 staff to the region. Eurojust collects evidence against war crimes. The agency for the operation of large databases, on the other hand, plays…
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New regulation: Europol becomes the Big Data police
Following the decision of the EU interior ministers, the new Europol law will come into force in June. The police agency will thus receive new areas of responsibility and powers. Comparatively quickly, EU member states and the Parliament have launched…
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New Western Balkans hub for Europol and Frontex
Although the EU agencies can now cooperate more closely with selected third countries, there have hardly been any formats for the political and strategic agreement of border police measures outside the Schengen area. Austria has now created facts for South…
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“Migrant smuggling” via Belarus: Europol wanted 455 internet accounts deleted
The Internet Referral Unit in The Hague also monitors social media for the purpose of prosecuting people who help refugees. However, the removal of content is not obligatory for providers. The EU police agency has reported at least 455 accounts…
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Referral Unit at Europol: German police had thousands of internet contents removed last year
Currently, hosting providers can decide whether to voluntarily comply with removal requests in the area of “Islamist terrorism” from Europol. From 7 June, these will become removal orders, which can be sent directly to companies by national authorities via a…
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Frontex and Europol: How refugees are tracked digitally
EU agencies advise increased confiscation and extraction of asylum seekers’ mobile phones and now provide a manual on how to do so. Apps to encrypt or disguise locations are disliked in the report as “countermeasures” to surveillance. Often the mobile…
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Britain and Europol: Social media to remove posts by refugees
Companies such as TikTok and Facebook are to step up deletions of internet content if it could encourage the entry of irregular migrants. Calls for this came from the British Criminal Investigation Department. A department for “removal orders” has also…