Race to the bottom on arms export control
In their aspirations towards a European arms industry, Germany and France want to cooperate more in arms production and invent new rules.…
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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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Outsourcing Oppression: How Europe externalises migrant detention beyond its shores
(Nederlands onderaan) This report seeks to join the dots between Europe’s outsourcing of migrant detention to third countries and the notoriously poor…
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Airbus – a company in decline
April 13, 2021 – On the eve of the annual shareholders’ meeting of Airbus (April 14 in Amsterdam), Urgewald (Germany), Stop Wapenhandel…
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Rheinmetall: The German-Dutch connection, financial constructions and components
Rheinmetall is a German producer of civil and military products. Recently its G3 machine riffles were located on patrol vessels of the…
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The carbon footprint of military sectors in the EU
Militaries are high consumers of fossil fuels – and yet they are frequently exempt from publicly reporting their carbon emissions. This is…
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TNO profits from lobbying for EU military funding
This year the European Defence Fund (EDF) will take off, handing out €8 billion in funding for military research and development of new…
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Dutch military naval technology to Ankara, ends in Karachi
Dutch military naval technology to Ankara, ends in Karachi
The Dutch government has issued a permit for the sale of military technology…
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Frontex awards €50 million in border surveillance drone contracts to Airbus, IAI and Elbit
Last week border guard agency Frontex announced it had awarded new contracts for drone surveillance services in the Mediterranean to arms companies…
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Securitisation of migration, militarisation of borders and industry influence
[Introduction during online workshop ‘Security and the Left in Europe’ of the Rosa Luxemburg Stifting Brussels, 21 November 2020]
During the…
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Military vessels and naval production in the Eastern Mediterranean
This week EU foreign ministers will discuss the crisis in the eastern Mediterranean at an informal meeting in Berlin, while Turkey and…
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