Matthias Monroy

Security Architectures in the EU

Tag: European Convention on Human Rights

  • Brexit agreement: Close EU police cooperation with the UK continues

    Brexit agreement: Close EU police cooperation with the UK continues

    British authorities retain access to the EU-wide exchange of PNR data and are allowed to query biometric records in EU member states. Additional agreements regulate close cooperation with Europol and the rapid extradition of wanted persons. However, the UK must leave Europe’s largest manhunt database. Even after Brexit, Britain retains an important place in the […]

  • Does Frontex arrange illegal push backs?

    Does Frontex arrange illegal push backs?

    The EU Border Agency’s air surveillance could have triggered unlawful deportations at external borders. Such operations took place off Libya and Bosnia-Herzegovina. For two years now, the Frontex Border Agency has been offering EU Member States the possibility of airborne monitoring of their external borders. The flights of this “Multipurpose Aerial Surveillance” (MAS) are part […]

  • EU Military in the Mediterranean: Mission accomplished

    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 The warships involved in the EUNAVFOR MED military mission are therefore being withdrawn, while the operation is “strengthening surveillance by air assets”. With […]