Frank Slijper
Frank Slijper
Frank Slijper is a senior researcher at the Dutch campaign against the arms trade (Campagne tegen Wapenhandel) and an associate of the Transnational Institute (TNI).
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Military spending and the EU crisis infographic
May 2013
An infographic that accompanies our report, Guns, Debt and Corruption, illustrating the role of military spending in causing and perpetuating the economic crisis.
Military spending and the EU crisis infographic
May 2013
An infographic that accompanies our report, Guns, Debt and Corruption, illustrating the role of military spending in causing and perpetuating the economic crisis.
Europe’s guns, debt and corruption
May 2013
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
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.
Guns, debt and corruption
April 2013
High levels of military spending played a key role in the unfolding economic crisis in Europe and continues to undermine efforts to resolve it.
Potentially powerful: The European Defence Agency at five years
October 2009
While it is too early to effectively evaluate the EDA, its lack of accountability in an increasingly militarised European Union is deeply problematic.
Potentially powerful: The European Defence Agency at five years
July 2009
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 be called spectacular, in the context of the problematic nature of European defence cooperation, the EDA has shown more potential than its predecessors.
Diverging national interests in the areas of procurement and defence industry policies still impede much of the agency's planned progress.
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From Venus to Mars
November 2008
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
increasing overlap between civilian and military space applications.
