Tag: SatCen
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Frontex: Migration control from space
In EUROSUR, EU member states use various satellite services for maritime surveillance. Frontex and the Maritime Security Agency conclude cooperation agreements with the “Copernicus” programme for this purpose. All the information Frontex collects at the EU’s external borders is fed into the EUROSUR border surveillance system, which went into operation in 2014. From space, this […]
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“Battlefield information”: EU police to cooperate more closely with secret services and military
Authorities in the European Union use biometric data and crime scene evidence from Iraq and Syria to process war crimes, secretly track suspects and control migration. Now the procedure is to be extended to African countries. After a meeting of EU interior and defence ministers in 2017, authorities in member states have been using so-called […]
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Europol steers arms companies for security research
Following the example of the US Department of Defense, Europol should coordinate European security research. In October, the EU interior ministers had decided on an “Innovation Laboratory” at the Police Agency. Due to potential confusion, the department will now be renamed. Since 1984, the European Union has organised its civil security research in multi-annual framework […]
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The European Border Intelligence Service
With EUROSUR, the EU Commission has a powerful border surveillance system at its disposal. It brings together reconnaissance data from aircraft, drones and soon also aerostatic balloons. Based on the images, a Frontex unit then decides on further measures in the “pre-frontier area”. The EU border agency Frontex has launched a series of new surveillance […]