Tag: Europol
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Europol coordinates armed special forces and now also surveillance teams
With the Atlas group, the EU has a powerful police network of 38 member states. On Germany’s initiative, a “surveillance group” has now been added. Actually, the European Union is not supposed to take competences away from the member states.…
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Schengen Information System launched in new version
The renewed SIS is active since today. Its number of alerts issued across Europe exceeds one million. However, the EU Commission is misleading about the true character of the system. The EU Commission today launched the updated Schengen Information System…
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German government dupes parliament: Cooperations with foreign secret services remain secret
The compliance with the parliamentary interest in information is a cornerstone of democracy. On secret services, however, this is too much effort for the German government. The current federal government in Germany wants to continue to inform parliament only to…
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Europol is not investigating “Europe’s Watergate”
The EU Parliament is probing one of Europe’s biggest espionage scandals, but has little power to do so. Europol should investigate the misuse of “state trojan “Pegasus” in the EU, MEPs demand. However, this would only be possible with the…