Security Architectures in the EU

Tag: Switzerland

  • Water cannons to neighboring countries: Germany leads cross-border support against mass protests

    Water cannons to neighboring countries: Germany leads cross-border support against mass protests

    Dutch police spray demonstrators off the street with German water cannons. This cross-border cooperation has been a unilateral tradition for 20 years. For days, tens of thousands of activists have been blockading the government quarter in The Hague following a call by the group Extinction Rebellion. To clear an occupied highway, Dutch police deployed water […]

  • “Ibiza Affair”: EU-wide arbitrary justice by Viennese Police and Justice, files show

    “Ibiza Affair”: EU-wide arbitrary justice by Viennese Police and Justice, files show

    How investigators from Austria overstretched European mutual legal assistance Last week, the German magazine Correctiv published the first interview conducted by Julian Hessenthaler in freedom. The private investigator is believed by authorities from Austria – so far without proof or conviction – to be the producer of the so-called Ibiza video. In 2019, the “Süddeutsche […]

  • Schengen Information System launched in new version

    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 […]

  • Police violence in Germany: Misuse of “Wiretapping Paragraph”

    Police violence in Germany: Misuse of “Wiretapping Paragraph”

    The ban on filming police operations is an international exception The practice of the German police to prohibit recordings of police operations with reference to the Penal Code is rather exceptional in international comparison. This is the conclusion of a report by the Scientific Services of the Bundestag, which looked at 16 countries, among them […]