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    Potentially powerful: The European Defence Agency at five years
    Frank Slijper

    While it is too early to effectively evaluate the EDA, its lack of accountability in an increasingly militarised European Union is deeply problematic.

    Interview: Neoconopticon report
    Ben Hayes

    The lack of debate on EU's emerging policies on security is not just about "sleepwalking into a surveillance society”, it is also turning a blind eye to the start of a new kind of arms race, one in which all the weapons are pointing inwards.

    NeoConOpticon
    Ben Hayes

    A new TNI report reveals the extent to which Europe’s largest defence and IT contractors are benefiting from a €1.4 billion EU “security research” programme.

    Big business and security
    Ben Hayes

    In its haste to cash-in on the security boom, the EU has outsourced its research agenda to corporate self-interest.

    Defence industry dominates EU’s security research programme

    The NeoConOpticon report, released by the Transnational Institute (TNI) and Statewatch, reveals the extent to which Europe’s largest defence and IT contractors are benefiting from a €1.4 billion EU “security research” programme that has the explicit aim of fostering a European Homeland Security...

    Potentially powerful: The European Defence Agency at five years
    Frank Slijper

    EUOBSERVER / COMMENT - Most Europeans have probably never heard of the European Defence Agency, which celebrates its fifth anniversary this month. Yet, this little known EU agency has slowly created a basis for the development of common military projects. While its achievements can certainly not...

    Torture: America's policy, Europe's shame
    Mariano Aguirre
     Jan Egeland and Mariano Aguirre
    The degrading treatment meted out to prisoners of the United States-led "war on terror" over seven years has yet to be subject to proper legal scrutiny and accountability. But the responsibility is Europe's too, say Jan Egeland & Mariano Aguirre.
    European space policy will see defence industry cashing in
    TNI
    The European Space Agency´s (ESA) €10 billion budget, agreed by EU Ministers at a meeting in The Hague today, gives Europe´s misguided militarisation of space a further boost.

    AMSTERDAM, 26 November.

    From Venus to Mars
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    Frank Slijper

    This paper examines the emergence of a European military space policy
    in the context of an international contest to dominate the ‘high
    ground’ of space. Raising concerns about the potential for an arms
    race, the paper looks at the creeping militarisation of space, and the...

    European Union sets its military sights on space, finds new report
    TNI
     TNI Press Release

    Amsterdam, 17 November. For immediate release. European space policy is increasingly driven by military rather than civilian objectives, according to From Venus to Mars: the European Union´s steps towards the militarisation of space, a new report from the...

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