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News articles and analyses examining the security research programme and related EU policies and initiatives.

Statewatch/TNI reports

• 12 May 2022:A clear and present danger: Missing safeguards on migration and asylum in the EU’s AI Act - contains an overview of research projects geared towards the development of 'border AI'
• 3 May 2022: At what cost? Funding the EU’s security, defence, and border policies, 2021–2027 - see in particular the section on 'Civil Security for Society'
• 28 February 2022: Building the biometric state: Police powers and discrimination - contains an overview of research projects geared towards the development of biometric technologies
• Market Forces: the development of the EU security-industrial complex (2017)
• The visible hand: the EU's Security Industrial Policy (2016)
• Rethinking the EU Security Research Programme (2011)
• A new player in security research: the European Network of Law Enforcement Technology Services (ENLETS) (2011)
• Homeland Security comes to Europe (2009)
• NeoConOpticon: The EU Security-Industrial Complex (2009)
• The German Security Research Programme: Transferring military technology – securitising civil research by Eric Töpfer (2010)
• Arming Big Brother: The EU's Security Research Programme (2006)

Other critical research

• Expanding the fortress: The policies, the profiteers and the people shaped by EU's border externalisation programme (TNI, 2018)
• Arms industry lobbying and the militarisation of the EU (Corporate Europe Observatory, link): an overview of information from the report 'Securing Profits' (below) and elsewhere, including the Statewatch/TNI report 'Market Forces' (2017)
• Securing Profitsby Bram Vanken (Vredesactie): on the arms idustry's role in the developing EU military research and defence policy (2017)
• Security for Sale: The price we pay to protect Europeans (de Correspondent, 2017)
• Border Wars and Border Wars II by Mark Akkerman (Transnational Institute, 2016)
• Review of security measures in the Research Framework Programme published by the European Parliament Directorate General for internal Policies, 2014 and 2010 - detailed report confirming many of the findings in Statewatch and TNI’s earlier NeoConOpticon report (above)
• A European Agenda for Security Technology: From Innovation Policy to Export Controls by Jocelyn Mawdsley (2013)
• Lobbying Warfare: The arms industry's role in building a militarised Europe: on arms industry lobbying in the EU institutions (Corporate Europe Observatory, 2011)

News articles

• Security research: advisory group report on fundamental rights in a "digital intensive environment" (October 2018)
• Budget proposals foresee big boost for spending on security, migration and border control (May 2018)
• Rethinking security... or not (May 2016)
• Long-distance border controls to "check travellers data along his/her journey" and remotely detect "abnormal behaviour" (November 2015)
• EU seeks autonomous drones, "data fusion" and "enhanced command and control centres" for border control (November 2015)
• EU funding for network developing surveillance, intelligence-gathering and remote vehicle stopping tools (January 2015)
• Police forces get ready for multi-billion euro policing and security funds (June 2014)
• New €77 billion research fund launches; €1.6 billion for security research (December 2013)
• Europe's justice and interior ministers push for closer relations between internal security authorities and industry (July 2013)