European Security

European Security

How international rules on countering the financing of terrorism impact civil society

May 2013
Ben Hayes

Making banks and non-profits liable for the acts and social networks of their customers and beneficiaries while holding charities and CSOs responsible for the ‘extremist’ views and actions of their associates stifles freedom of association and expression and promotes self-censorship.

Europe’s guns, debt and corruption

May 2013
Frank Slijper

This second of two essays on military spending and the EU crisis, explores the role of the European arms trade, corruption and the role of arms exporting countries in fuelling a debt crisis, and why these 'odious' debts need to be written off.

Austerity in Europe? Tighten the military belt

May 2013
Frank Slijper

Five years into the economic crisis in Europe and the elephant in the room is the role of military spending in causing and perpetuating the economic crisis.

How the EU subsidises Israel’s military-industrial complex

March 2013
Ben Hayes

The EU is providing generous R&D (research and development) subsidies to Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), the state-owned manufacturer of Israeli ‘drones’ and other ‘battlefield solutions’. Some of the grants are for IAI to adapt its killer robots for use within the EU. 

 
 

After Doha: rejecting dystopia by default

December 2012
Ben Hayes
Nick Buxton

We need to challenge the security industries and military that are thriving on the fear and insecurity created by our governments' inaction on climate change.

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Borderline

July 2012
Ben Hayes
Mathias Vermeulen

The EU’s new 'smart borders' regime infringes fundamental rights, undermines privacy while creating profits for Europe’s defence contractors.

How international rules on countering terrorist-financing are undermining freedom of association

March 2012

How international rules on countering terrorist-financing are undermining freedom of association: an analysis of the impact of FATF ‘Special Recommendation VIII’ on non-profit organisations.

Euro-Med Uprising: Analysis from the frontline

May 2011

Speakers from across the Middle East and Europe discuss the wave of social unrest across the wider region; what do these struggles have in common? What opportunities are there for building solidarity between movements across the Mediterranean?

EU complicity in Israeli human rights abuses

February 2011
Ben Hayes

Evidence given at the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, and the EU's provision of research grants to Israeli security companies complicit in violations of human rights law.

Blacklisted

December 2010
Ben Hayes
Gavin Sullivan

Human rights experts call for abolition of United Nations ‘terrorist list’ and wholesale reform of EU blacklisting regime.