Frontex – new customer for the arms industry
Last week the European Parliament voted largely in favour of a stronger mandate for Frontex, the EU border control agency. One of…
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Stop Wapenhandel (Stop Arms Trade) is a group of independent researchers and activists on arms trade, the arms industry and lobbying. Stop Wapenhandel advocates sustainable security, not based on military power and deterrence but on solving the causes of insecurity.
Stop Wapenhandel is part of the European Network Against Arms Trade (ENAAT) and the Arms, Militarism and Climate Justice working group.
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Where East meets West
IMAV 2011 is short for International Micro Air Vehicle conference and flight competition and is held this week at the Dutch army…
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DSEi and the Dutch
Coming Tuesday the world’s largest arms fair, Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEi), in Londen, once again opens its doors for arms…
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Arms trade and the Greek debt crisis
Both Greece and the euro currency have bought extra time to recover from the financial crisis after eurozone leaders agreed a new…
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Dutch firm joins forces with Nigerian navy to establish shipbuilding facility
Wieringerwerf-based company TP Marine intensifies its ties with the Nigerian navy. After providing it with catamarans and refitting its large patrol boats,…
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International Seminar: War Profiteering and Peace Movement Responses / Barcelona
29 Sep 2011 – 2 Oct 2011
Justícia i Pau (Centre Delàs), Fundació per la Pau, War Resisters’ International and the European…
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European anti-arms trade network endorses international call for Israel arms embargo
11 July 2011-European anti-arms trade groups have endorsed international calls for an arms embargo on Israel.
The call comes seven years after…
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Italian military relations with Israel
The Italian arms export law makes a distinction between two categories of weapons:
1) For military use (licences and deliveries) whose export…
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Saudi Leopards
Last week the Dutch parliamentary year finished, with on Thursday voting on hundreds of motions. Twelve of them were on arms export…
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Arms export policy used as greenwash
Thanks to mobile phones, the use of European weapons against brave Arab people demanding democracy is well-documented. Many Europeans were shocked, and…
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