Security Architectures in the EU

Tag: Multipurpose Aerial Surveillance

  • Secret aerial surveillance: What does an hour’s flight with a Frontex drone cost?

    Secret aerial surveillance: What does an hour’s flight with a Frontex drone cost?

    With a new regulation, the EU border agency has set up its own aerial surveillance with aircraft. With the arrival of drones, migration control with the “Multipurpose Aerial Surveillance” has become much more effective, but presumably also more expensive. For…

  • Frontex aircraft: Below the radar against international law

    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…

  • New Frontex Regulation: Fortress Europe to be upgraded

    New Frontex Regulation: Fortress Europe to be upgraded

    The European Union is setting up a “Standing Corps” of 10,000 border guards, most of whom will be provided by the German Federal Police. The new President of the Commission wants the unit to be complete by 2024. Frontex will…

  • 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…