Schlagwort: Schengen Information System
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Schengen Information System launched in new version
The renewed SIS is active since today. Its number of alerts issued across Europe exceeds one million. However, the EU Commission is misleading about the true character of the system. The EU Commission today launched the updated Schengen Information System (SIS). Following a renewal of the Regulation, this largest European security and border management database […]
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„Partial unavailability“: Largest EU police database repeatedly down
Since the Schengen Information System has been run by an EU agency, it has failed completely on at least 34 occasions. The latest incidents are only now being made public. The Schengen Information System (SIS II), launched in 1995, is the largest European information system. As a police database, it forms the digital backbone of […]
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Amendment of SIS II Regulation: Europol to coordinate proposals for alerts from third countries
The EU police agency is to receive lists of persons from foreign authorities and then have them alerted in the Schengen area for refusal of entry, arrest or observation. This legalises a questionable procedure that has long been practised. Can the US FBI put a Tunisian national on a European database for refusal of entry, […]
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Schengen Information System: Largest European police database now with Ireland
Presumably because of the Corona pandemic, queries to Europe’s largest wanted persons database have dropped drastically. Irish authorities now also participate in the system, but are only allowed to process about a third of the wanted persons entered there. On Monday, Ireland joined the Schengen Information System (SIS II). This makes the Republic a participant […]