Tag: Frontex
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New FRONTEX agency: satellite reconnaissance and drones over the Mediterranean
The EU is taking its maritime surveillance to a new level. The three agencies responsible for coastal and maritime surveillance are to be merged. 81 million euros has been earmarked for unmanned aerial vehicles alone, with hundreds of millions also…
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EU adds facial recognition capabilities to police databases
Last week, the European Commission published its proposal to recast the EURODAC Regulation, which includes plans for longer storage periods, an expansion of data categories and comparison capabilities, and mandatory fingerprinting and photographing. To date, EURODAC has been used for…
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Turn off the Stockholm Programme!
Campaign against the next five-years plan for EU homeland affairs Following Tampere 1999 and Hague 2004, the EU plans to decide the next five-year plan on “Justice and Home Affairs” (JHA) this year. After the implementation of data retention and…
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Social Movements Against the Global Security Architecture!
A Critique of the Militarisation of Social Conflict and the Securitisation of Everyday Life Assessment of the Strategy Papers of the ‘Future Group’ (on the future of EU Home Affairs policies) and the ‘new strategic directions’ of NATO, put forward…