Fingerprint-Visa im EU-Parlament
[futurezone.at] Das EU-Parlament hat in zweiter Lesung der Integration biometrischer Merkmale in Visa-Anträge für den Schengen-Raum sowie deren elektronischer Weiterverarbeitung zugestimmt. Auch Kinder ab zwölf Jahren sollen in der zentralen Visumsdatenbank der Union mit Foto und Abdrücken von allen zehn Fingern erfasst werden.
G20 protesters face police with Tasers
David Leppard and Steven Swinford [timesonline.co.uk] SCOTLAND YARD is to deploy officers armed with 50,000-volt Taser stun guns to deal with violent demonstrators planning to disrupt this week’s G20 summit in London. The centrepiece of the security plan will be hundreds of officers from the Metropolitan police territorial support group, who are routinely armed with […]
Economist Intelligence Unit: Manning the Barricades
[akamai.net] This special report is the third by the Economist Intelligence Unit since the credit crisis erupted in August 2007. In the first report, we looked at the implications of a financial meltdown on the global economy. In the second, we considered the wider economic effects, including the risk of a 1990s, Japan-style collapse in […]
French plan for EU armed police in Afghanistan
[eubusiness.com] Several EU nations have concerns about a French scheme to send European armed police into Afghanistan, officials admitted during a foreign ministers meeting. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner launched the idea at an EU summit last week. He made the case again at two days of talks with his European Union counterparts at Hluboka […]
Schweiz: Verstärkte polizeiliche Zusammenarbeit mit Bulgarien
[swissinfo.ch] Die Schweiz und Bulgarien wollen im Polizeibereich enger zusammenarbeiten. Bundesrätin Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf und der bulgarische Innenminister Mihail Mikov haben am Freitag eine entsprechende Absichtserklärung unterzeichnet. Ziel der intensivierten Zusammenarbeit ist es, wirksamer gegen die organisierte Kriminalität – insbesondere Menschenhandel und -schmuggel – sowie Geldfälschung vorzugehen. Vorgesehen ist unter anderem, die Zusammenarbeit im Rahmen von […]
Schiefes Weltbild
Wie die Fernsehbilder des Natogipfels 2009 von den Behörden beeinflusst werden. [indymedia.org]Fernsehsender in aller Welt werden während des Nato-Gipfels in Baden-Baden, Kehl und Strasbourg zentral von so genannten ´Host Broadcastern` mit Bildern und Tönen versorgt. In Frankreich wird diese Rolle den Stuttgarter Nachrichten zufolge von einer Privatfirma übernommen (1). Präsident Sarkozy habe angeordnet, dass nur […]
Das Treffen der acht Großen (G8) gegen den Terror, der die Welt erschüttert, wird im April stattfinden
[Rappresentante Permanente ONU] Unter italienischer Präsidentschaft hat sich in New York die G8 Counter-Terrorism Action Group (CTAG) getroffen, der außer der G8-Mitglieder die am stärksten in den Programmen für die technische Unterstützung im Kampf gegen den Terror engagierten Länder (Australien, Spanien, Schweiz) und die durch den executive-director für Terrorbekämpfung Mike Smith vertretene UNO angehören. Das […]
Switzerland’s Schengen entry finally complete
Switzerland will complete its official entry into the "borderless" Schengen zone with the scrapping of airport passport controls on Sunday. [swissinfo.ch] Airborne passengers travelling within the zone will no longer have to submit to routine passport checks in line with road and rail border crossings that relaxed controls when Switzerland implemented the agreement in December. […]
Sicherheitsforschung für den „westlichen Lebensstil“
Hanne Jobst Bundesregierung hat ein wissenschaftliches Kooperationsabkommen mit den USA, Frankreich und Israel unterzeichnet. Im Mittelpunkt steht der "Schutz kritischer Infrastrukturen" und "Krisenmanagement" [heise.de] Mitte März diesen Jahres hatten Bundesforschungsministerin Annette Schavan und US-Heimatschutzministerin Janet Napolitano in Berlin ein Regierungsabkommen über die "wissenschaftliche und technologische Zusammenarbeit" in der Sicherheitsforschung unterzeichnet. Gegenstand des Vertrages war die […]
Permanente Wachsamkeit und andauernde Terrordrohung
Florian Rötzer Nachdem die US- und die britische Regierung ein Warnsystem eingeführt haben, gab es niemals Entwarnung [heise.de] Wenn man einmal ein System eingeführt hat, das die Gefährdung durch Terrorismus öffentlich meldet, so scheint die Tendenz der Bürokraten dahin zu gehen, das Altbewährte beizubehalten, geschehe, was wolle – oder was nicht geschieht. Seit Jahren pflegt […]
Social network sites ‚monitored‘
Details could be leaked, said one Lib Dem MP [bbc.co.uk] Social networking sites like Facebook could be monitored by the UK government under proposals to make them keep details of users‘ contacts. The Home Office said it was needed to tackle crime gangs and terrorists who might use the sites, but said it would not […]
Aufruf zum Summer of Resistance 2009
english: www.gipfelsoli.org/NATO_2009_english/6396.html francais: www.gipfelsoli.org/NATO_2009_francais/6395.html italiano www.gipfelsoli.org/Home/6404.html svenska: www.motkraft.net/nyheter/3483 suomeksi http://takku.net/article.php/20090404103349126 Gegen NATO, G20, G8, Frontex und das “Stockholm Programm”! Sicherheitsarchitekturen einstürzen! Seit Ende des letzten Jahrtausends findet innerhalb der EU ein Umbau der “Sicherheitsarchitektur” statt, der durch die Anschläge des 11. September 2001 in den USA nochmals beschleunigt wurde. Sichtbare Phänomene sind z.B. die Verschränkung […]
Second public procurement for vehicles for Bulgarian border police to start
[sofiaecho.com] In the first public procurement for vehicles for Bulgarian border police none of the offers qualified. Bulgarian Finance Ministry has not opened a second procurement procedure, Bulgarian daily Dnevnik said. The new procurement has a total value of 4.58 million euro and consists of a procurement for all-terrain vehicles and one for buses. The […]
Five SEE Countries Sign Ministerial Declaration on Border Co-op
[english.cri.cn] Five Southeast European countries signed in Belgrade on Friday a ministerial declaration on border security in the region, in which they express readiness to fulfill the required standards for joining the European Union and the Schengen Agreement. The declaration adopted at the sixth annual ministerial conference on security cooperation in Southeast Europe was signed […]
Overseas police training ends
[di-ve.com] An overseas training course for 19 members of the police was completed, police said on Monday. The course, whose cost of €46,000 was funded under the Leonardo Da Vinci programme, took place over 4 periods of 2 weeks each. In July 2008, the police officers sectioned in the international relations section of the force […]
Italy: Thousands of immigrants expelled this year
[adnkronos.com] More than 3,000 illegal migrants have been expelled from Italy since the beginning of 2009 as part of the government’s crackdown. Interior minister Roberto Maroni announced the figures in an interview aired on Radio Rai Uno. "More than 3,000 illegal immigrants were expelled. We want to intensify this action, because whoever comes to Italy […]
Romania is paid first Schengen evaluation visit
[roumanie.com] A European expert team is paying a first visit to Romania over March 23-29 to check the fulfilment of all the requirements set on police cooperation, in order for Romania to get the status of a full Schengen member state. According to the Interior Ministry’s communication service, the experts will draw up a report […]
Macedonia, Bulgaria sign agreement on joint contact-center for police, customs cooperation
[bsanna-news.ukrinform.ua] SKOPJE, March 20 (MIA). Macedonia and Bulgaria, being neighboring states, have exceptionally good cooperation, especially in the fight against organized crime, but also in the meeting of European Union membership criteria through the use of the Bulgarian experience, said Minister of Interior Gordana Jankuloska and Bulgarian counterpart Mihail Mikov after Friday’s meeting in Skopje. […]
Belgrade: Regional ministers adopted Declaration on Security
[glassrbije.org] At the regional ministerial conference in Belgrade today, the Declaration on Border Security in Southeastern Europe was adopted and singed by officials of interior ministers of Serbia, Montenegro, B-Macedonia, B-H, and Albania. The document reads that the progress was made in the field of strengthening border security, which is of great importance for closer […]
Bulgaria active in cooperation for Southeast Europe security
[bnr.bg] Serbia’s capital Belgrade played host to the Sixth Annual Ministerial for cooperation in Southeast Europe border security. Special guest to the forum was Bulgarian Interior Minister Mihail Mikov. According to him the conference’s theme is not exhausted with border security but has to do with good police cooperation and interaction and with the region’s […]