Matthias Monroy

Security Architectures in the EU

Schlagwort: European Monitoring Team

  • Frontex Aerial Service: Reconnaissance for the so-called Libyan coast guard

    Frontex Aerial Service: Reconnaissance for the so-called Libyan coast guard

    The EU Border Agency charters private aircraft to monitor the EU’s external borders. First Italy and Croatia have ordered the flights, now Frontex also flies in the Aegean Sea, above the Black Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The service will soon be supplemented by large drones. Five years ago, Frontex installed a new service for […]

  • 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 […]