#Tag
#Frontex launches aerial surveillance in West Africa – but its fundamental rights officer raised concerns:
https://digit.site36.net/2025/11/15/frontex-launches-aerial-surveillance-in-west-africa-its-fundamental-rights-officer-raises-concerns
The move copies the regime of #pullbacks which the EU installed with Libya since 2017.
#Frontex launches aerial surveillance in West Africa – but its fundamental rights officer raised concerns:
https://digit.site36.net/2025/11/15/frontex-launches-aerial-surveillance-in-west-africa-its-fundamental-rights-officer-raises-concerns
The move copies the regime of #pullbacks which the EU installed with Libya since 2017.
The EU culture you are actually establishing:
- Mass surveillance ( #ChatControl, #dataretention, #omnibus )
- Threatening the access to free information, communication and journalism ( #ChatControl again)
- Society of digital control in the interest of big tech corporations and authoritarian institutions ( #digitalidentity, #europol)
- Drowing people in the mediterranean and letting them suffer and die at EU borders ( #Frontex)
- Reckless Militarism, authoritarianism, neonationalism and neoliberalism, normalisation of corruption and lobbyism in and by your postdemocratic institution.
Nope, that's definitely no culture or vision worth to fight for. Quite the opposite actually.
Contrasts the all-too-familiar "invasion" framing with other maps
I believe #Frontex needs to be defunded and dismantled.
It's become a state within the state (or the union) - unaccountability is a problem in and of itself, and a breeding ground for further problems.
The whole complex is a festering abscess in the human rights record of the EU.
Abstract:
"How is undocumented migration typically mapped [...]? [...] we conduct an iconological dissection of what could be seen as the epitome of the cartography on undocumented migration, the map made by #Frontex – the EU’s border agency.
We find that, rather than a scientific depiction of a migratory phenomenon, its cartography peddles a crude distortion [...] and stands in full
confrontation with contemporary geographical scholarship. [...]."
(hashtag mine)
If you’re unaware, the EU has engaged in mass surveillance in the Global South far ahead of attempts to ram #ChatControl through the EU legal system.
Done underhandedly through Frontex, the EU handed data-extraction tools capable of retrieving call logs, photos, GPS locations and WhatsApp messages from any phone to West African nations, helping transfer migration data from host countries to the EU.
🇪🇺 Europe for Culture. Culture for Europe.
Culture connects us, strengthens communities, and sparks creativity and innovation.
We’re launching a new vision for Europe’s cultural future:
🎨 Fair conditions for artists
🌍 Greater cultural access for all generations
🤝 Stronger international partnerships
💡 A creative sector ready for the digital age
Culture keeps Europe strong, diverse & united.
When Europe stands for culture, culture stands for Europe.
The EU culture you are actually establishing:
- Mass surveillance ( #ChatControl, #dataretention, #omnibus )
- Threatening the access to free information, communication and journalism ( #ChatControl again)
- Society of digital control in the interest of big tech corporations and authoritarian institutions ( #digitalidentity, #europol)
- Drowing people in the mediterranean and letting them suffer and die at EU borders ( #Frontex)
- Reckless Militarism, authoritarianism, neonationalism and neoliberalism, normalisation of corruption and lobbyism in and by your postdemocratic institution.
Nope, that's definitely no culture or vision worth to fight for. Quite the opposite actually.
EXKLUSIV: #Frontex will eine »Quick Reaction Force« aufbauen. Sie soll auch außerhalb des direkten Grenzschutzes operieren und könnte gegen den Willen eines Mitgliedstaates entsandt werden. https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1195365.einsatz-bei-grossereignissen-neue-eingreiftruppe-fuer-frontex.html
If you’re unaware, the EU has engaged in mass surveillance in the Global South far ahead of attempts to ram #ChatControl through the EU legal system.
Done underhandedly through Frontex, the EU handed data-extraction tools capable of retrieving call logs, photos, GPS locations and WhatsApp messages from any phone to West African nations, helping transfer migration data from host countries to the EU.
#Frontex is planning to set up a new “Quick Reaction Force”. It is intended to operate beyond direct border protection and could operate around sporting events and summit meetings. This #QRF might also be deployed against the will of a member state:
https://digit.site36.net/2025/11/11/new-police-unit-for-frontex-could-also-be-deployed-at-sporting-events-and-summit-meetings/
#Frontex is planning to set up a new “Quick Reaction Force”. It is intended to operate beyond direct border protection and could operate around sporting events and summit meetings. This #QRF might also be deployed against the will of a member state:
https://digit.site36.net/2025/11/11/new-police-unit-for-frontex-could-also-be-deployed-at-sporting-events-and-summit-meetings/
EXKLUSIV: #Frontex will eine »Quick Reaction Force« aufbauen. Sie soll auch außerhalb des direkten Grenzschutzes operieren und könnte gegen den Willen eines Mitgliedstaates entsandt werden. https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1195365.einsatz-bei-grossereignissen-neue-eingreiftruppe-fuer-frontex.html
Identificato Robert Brytan, l'uomo che minacciava don Mattia Ferrari: è il dirigente di una società informatica con accesso all’archivio #Frontex
Nato in Polonia, residente in Germania, cittadinanza canadese (è stato in Guardia Costiera) e rientrato in Europa come assistente di un europarlamentare polacco. Oggi lavora per una società che fornisce piattaforme software a Frontex, l'agenzia europea per il controllo delle frontiere.
https://www.avvenire.it/attualita/e-stato-identificato-luomo-che-minacciava-don-mattia-ferrari_99998
Sabies que...❓
➡️ La #UE prohibeix el reconeixement facial sobre la seva població pel risc als drets fonamentals
😰 Però l'imposa obligatòriament a persones migrants, inclosos menors de 6 anys
👁️ Les dades es guarden 10 anys a #EURODAC, una base de dades accessible a #Frontex
✍️També s'usen "detectores de mentides" basades en anàlisi facial per avaluar sol·licituds d'asil (tot i ser sistemes imprecisos i prohibits per a europeus)
Font: @AlgoRace
It’s starting: Frontex is being deployed in Belgium
„The government had announced it, and now it’s happening: since last week, the first Frontex agents have been on duty at Zaventem airport.
The government’s goal is clear: the Minister of the Interior (Quintin, MR) and the Minister of Asylum and Migration (Van Bossuyt, N-VA) are delighted with this new collaboration. With the support of Frontex, they want to increase the number of deportations by plane.
Anyone staying illegally in Belgium must return to their country as quickly as possible. Thanks to Frontex’s intervention, we can speed up the pace of return operations.’
(Van Bossuyt)
The Frontex agency is the armed hand of the European Union: officially, in the words of the EU, Frontex ‘guarantees the safety and smooth functioning of external borders by ensuring security’.
In reality, Frontex is a deadly agency, already responsible for the deaths of thousands of people every year at the borders of Fortress Europe.“
We can only fear the worst with the new ‘collaboration’ between police officers and Frontex.
Borders kill. Down with borders.
ABOLISH DETENTION CENTRES
ABOLISH BORDERS
ABOLISH FRONTEX
ABOLISH POLICE
FREEDOM FOR ALL
https://www.anarchistfederation.net/its-starting-frontex-is-being-deployed-in-belgium/
#Belgium#Europe#FortressEurope #AbolishFrontex#Frontex#EU#Migration
It’s starting: Frontex is being deployed in Belgium
„The government had announced it, and now it’s happening: since last week, the first Frontex agents have been on duty at Zaventem airport.
The government’s goal is clear: the Minister of the Interior (Quintin, MR) and the Minister of Asylum and Migration (Van Bossuyt, N-VA) are delighted with this new collaboration. With the support of Frontex, they want to increase the number of deportations by plane.
Anyone staying illegally in Belgium must return to their country as quickly as possible. Thanks to Frontex’s intervention, we can speed up the pace of return operations.’
(Van Bossuyt)
The Frontex agency is the armed hand of the European Union: officially, in the words of the EU, Frontex ‘guarantees the safety and smooth functioning of external borders by ensuring security’.
In reality, Frontex is a deadly agency, already responsible for the deaths of thousands of people every year at the borders of Fortress Europe.“
We can only fear the worst with the new ‘collaboration’ between police officers and Frontex.
Borders kill. Down with borders.
ABOLISH DETENTION CENTRES
ABOLISH BORDERS
ABOLISH FRONTEX
ABOLISH POLICE
FREEDOM FOR ALL
https://www.anarchistfederation.net/its-starting-frontex-is-being-deployed-in-belgium/
#Belgium#Europe#FortressEurope #AbolishFrontex#Frontex#EU#Migration
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