Tag: Serbia
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These are the new plans for Frontex: more tasks and powers, but oversight remains weak
The EU Commission wants to triple Frontex troops. The agency’s appetite for data is also growing. This year, the Commission intends to propose further changes – some details have already leaked. Operations of the European border agency are hardly comparable…
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Bosnian refugee camp Lipa: Dispute over “Austrian Guantanamo”
20 governments participate in the Vienna ICMPD and finance or receive its activities. The ÖVP-affiliated organisation handles migration control for the EU. Every year, the EU spends hundreds of millions of euros to manage and counter migration in third countries.…
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Mass deportations from Croatia and Hungary: Organisations complain of human rights violations
More than 130,000 people were deported from Hungary to neighbouring Serbia without an asylum application being registered. Now Croatia is returning refugees on a large scale to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Croatian police are currently carrying out mass deportations of refugees…
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Western Balkans test field: Frontex already operates in four non-EU states
Frontex was once established to support EU Member States with an external border in their surveillance. The tasks of this European Border and Coast Guard have always included improving controls on land and at EU airports and seaports. However, with…
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German ANOM investigations: The mysterious EU third state
The FBI had a crypto-messenger programmed that was fully intercepted. For legal reasons, the US authority received the intercepted communication via detours. Because of “hearsay court orders”, its use in German criminal proceedings is questionable. Ever since the encrypted messenger…
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First deployment on the edge of a war zone: EU sends Frontex to Moldova
In just a few days, the Republic of Moldova could command units of the EU border force, the deployment is already being prepared. However, a status agreement currently being negotiated with the government in Chisinau would have to exclude operations…
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After the war over Nagorno-Karabakh: British military flirts with Turkish-style armed drones
Turkish unmanned aerial vehicles are smaller and much cheaper than their US counterparts. They can be procured in large numbers, so their loss in action is of little consequence. There is growing support in the UK for a new programme…
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New arms deal: Ukraine wants armed drone fleet from Turkey
Turkey is one of the few countries that manufactures, exports, deploys armed drones abroad and even at home. The unmanned offensive weapons could soon be manufactured in Ukraine. A jointly produced drone-bomber is also expected to go into series production…