Tag: Italy

  • EU extends maritime surveillance with drones

    EU extends maritime surveillance with drones

    Three EU agencies are responsible for maritime safety, in an agreement they want to benefit from joint reconnaissance capabilities. Drone flights are used for border, fisheries and customs controls, law enforcement and environmental protection. Seven European states are currently participating…

  • New database at Eurojust: Who’s a terrorist?

    New database at Eurojust: Who’s a terrorist?

    The EU has a Criminal Record Information System since 2012, but last week a second database was introduced only for “terrorist threats”. Its added value is unclear and may be the search for “interconnections”. The system also includes “right-wing and…

  • 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…

  • Airbus to build the “Eurodrone”

    Airbus to build the “Eurodrone”

    To fly in European airspace, large military drones need a „Detect and Avoid“ system. The “Eurodrone” could therefore be equipped with “American technology”. Only “one final production line” is to be set up for the the “Eurodrone”. This was announced…