Tag: Indra
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Frontex Files: The Military-Border Police Complex
Following Freedom of Information requests, the EU Border Agency has released over one hundred presentations, most of which feature companies promoting their military technologies for securing Europe’s external borders. Deployments to counter migration use drones, satellites, high-resolution cameras and radars,…
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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…
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Frontex aircraft: Below the radar against international law
For three years, Frontex has been chartering small aircraft for the surveillance of the EU’s external borders. First Italy was thus supported, then Croatia followed. Frontex keeps the planes details secret, and the companies also switch off the transponders for…
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European border surveillance in Libya
The shifting of the EU’s external borders to North Africa is generating profits for defence companies The European Union is stepping up efforts to protect its external borders. The focus is on developing the Frontex Border Agency into a European…