Polish preparations for EURO 2012
A preliminary report on the Polish preparation process to the 2012 European Football Championship was discussed at a meeting of the Committee for Safety and Security at EURO 2012. Also international experts on security at mass sport events, who visited Poland on many occasions, presented their conclusions. Experts from the Expert Advisory Team for Safety […]
Announcement to the society
We, the 300 migrants hunger strikers, we demand legalization of all migrants living and working in Greece and we declare the following: We, 300, took the initiative for that kind of struggle, without the intervention of political parties, organizations and individuals. We believe that the country that we live in is a democracy and as […]
Israel and European Space Agency Sign Revolutionary Agreement
by Yoni Kempinski A first of its kind agreement on cooperation in Space Research and Exploration was signed between the Government of the State of Israel and the European Space Agency – ESA. The signing ceremony was held as part of the Sixth International Ilan Ramon Conference. Ilan Ramon was Israel’s first astronaut and he […]
Illegal immigrants in Greek seige
DOZENS of police in riot gear cordoned off streets overnight around Athens University’s Law School, which has been taken over by about 200 illegal immigrants who are holding a hunger strike to demand they be legalised. Under Greek law governing university asylum, police are barred from entering university or school campuses except under exceptional circumstances. […]
Call for Solidarity to the 300 Migrants Hunger Strikers in Greece
On January 25, 300 migrant workers went on hunger strike in Athens and Thessaloniki. Their main demand is to be legalized. At this moment, when the financial crisis has violently erupted and ultra-right political forces have come to the fore, this may sound as a maximalist demand. For this reason, we need to pay attention […]
Please join us for a peaceful blockade of Scotland Yard, Monday 24th January, 8am
The shocking revelations about police infiltration of the protest movement just keep coming. Reading Laura’s story in the Guardian today about the 4the undercover cop has made us sad, upset, and angry… bringing home the true gravity of what the state has done to women in our movement. In response, we call for us to […]
Demonstration project on the Surveillance of the EU Sea Borders
The new year has seen the start, on January 1st, of the project PERSEUS („Protection of European seas and borders through the intelligent use of surveillance“), coordinated by INDRA Sistemas S.A (ES), with 29 partners, including the Spanish Guardia Civil, the French Minister of Interior, the Portuguese Air Force, the Hellenic Coast Guard and Minister […]
Farewell to NETCU: A brief history of how protest movements have been targeted by political policing
As ‚domestic extremism‘ police units are reorganised, we say goodbye to an old favourite of protesters – the National Extremism Tactical Co-ordination Unit (NETCU). Despite the government’s attempts to present these reorganisations as ‚cleaning up‘ the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) following the Mark Kennedy scandal, these plans are from before Kennedy was revealed […]
Plain-clothes Metropolitan police officers were at G20 demonstrations
Metropolitan police admits senior commander gave false information to MPs when quizzed about protests in 2009 The Metropolitan police was forced to admit today that one of its senior commanders gave false information to MPs when he denied having plain-clothes officers in the crowd at the G20 demonstrations in London in 2009. (more on guardian.co.uk)
Confrontation against Frontex and head of European Council
On Jan. 17, on the 97th World Day of Migrants and Refugees, a conference on migration policy was held at the Kazimierowski Palace featuring keynote speakers Ilkka Laitinen, Executive Director of Frontex and former British Home Secretary Charles Clarke and attended by various Eurocrats and migrant hunters. Although we found out about this only at […]
EU intelligence services opening up to collaboration
ANDREW RETTMAN EU member states‘ intelligence services are among the most jealously-guarded national assets despite five decades of integration. But two European Commission-sponsored projects on open source intelligence (Osint) are beginning to change the culture of mistrust. Launched quietly in the Hungarian capital by the commission and the Hungarian foreign ministry in 2007, the Budapest […]
ENTSICHERN CONGRESS in Berlin, 29-30 January 2011
Analyse, criticise, dismantle EU! A considerable part of all legislative and political decisions are currently made via the European Union. Expected resistance in the 27 member states is thwarted by this ”policy laundering” while the financially strongest governments furthermore dominate the course. At the same time the EU enlarge its powers through its own structures […]
Mark Kennedy: A journey from undercover cop to ‚bona fide‘ activist
No one suspected Mark Kennedy was undercover when he joined environmental activists – but has he now switched sides? He turned up with long hair, tattoos and an insatiable appetite for climbing trees. Few people suspected anything odd of the man who introduced himself as Mark Stone on a dairy farm turned spiritual sanctuary in […]
Undercover officer spied on green activists
Guardian investigation reveals details of PC Mark Kennedy’s infiltration of dozens of protest groups Rob Evans and Paul Lewis A police officer who for seven years lived deep undercover at the heart of the environmental protest movement, travelling to 22 countries gleaning information and playing a frontline role in some of the most high-profile confrontations, […]
Greece: More immigrant plans lined up
Floating prisons and old army camps may be used as reception centers; rally against fence organized Greece is considering using both floating prisons and old army bases to house undocumented migrants, the government has revealed as its idea of constructing a fence on the Greek-Turkish border to deter illegal immigration continues to attract criticism. Citizens’ […]
Greece Comes Up with Sea-Based Immigrant Detention Centers
Greece’s Citizens‘ Protection Ministry has come up with the idea to use two ships as sea-based centers for detention of illegal immigrants as it is struggling with an influx of migrants through its land border with Turkey. Over the past week, Greece stirred a controversy in Europe by suggesting it might build a wall along […]
Bulgaria Ex-Interior Minister: Schengen Funds Stolen
A part of the funds intended for Bulgaria’s preparation to join the Schengen agreement has been stolen, according to the controversial former Interior Minister Rumen Petkov. Petkov pointed out that a total of EUR 160 M has been granted for Bulgaria in order to cover the Schengen criteria, of which EUR 30 M has been […]
US and Germany in joint spy satellite project: cable
The United States and Germany are jointly developing secret spy satellites under the guise of a commercial programme despite opposition from France, leaked US diplomatic cables showed Monday. The project, named HiROS, envisions the construction of an undetermined number of high-resolution observation satellites capable of spotting any object on the planet down to a size […]
Τhe greek government plans on building a fence
Τhe greek government plans on building a fence in evros, to stop the flows of migrants Christos Papoutsis (ministry of public order) revealed during an interview at Athenian-macedonian news agency. We have a complete plan that we are implementing in these days. Such as the cooperation with the European Agency Frontex. We are also planning […]
Presentation of the project “Good practice for dialogue and communication as strategic principles for policing political manifestations in Europe” (GODIAC)
The transnational project runs from 1 August 2010 to 31 July 2013. It is funded to 70 % by the Action Grant of the specified programme Prevention of and Fight against Crime from the European Union’s General Programme 2007-2013 on Security and Safeguarding Civil Liberties. The Swedish National Police Board, who is the project co-ordinator […]