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The EU Security-industrial Complex
September 2010
Ben Hayes

The EU approach to security is starting to eclipse the rule of law, with very little consideration of human rights.

Revenge of the Deficit-Haters
August 2010
Saul Landau

Ironically, the loudest complainers about paying taxes become the most eloquent advocates of spending more on the military.

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September 2009
Ben Hayes

Are we turning a blind eye to a new kind of arms race? One in which all the weapons are pointing inwards? This report reveals the extent to which Europe’s largest defence and IT contractors are benefiting from a €1.4 billion EU “security research” programme.

 

Potentially powerful: The European Defence Agency at five years
July 2009
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...

European space policy will see defence industry cashing in
November 2008
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.

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European Union sets its military sights on space, finds new report
November 2008
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...

A new European century?
September 2007
TNI
 Eurotopia No. 2
See the world’s foreign military bases from outer space
August 2007
TNI

Researchers from TNI and other institutions have mapped more than 800 bases onto google earth. Now you can for the first time see the global reach of foreign military bases from outer space and then zoom in close for aerial shots of key bases such as US base Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

“Terrorist lists” still above the law
August 2007
Ben Hayes
Asia Europe Crosspoints 2002
June 2007
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