Dutch transit of Czech ammo to Guatemala
…efforts to fight corruption, abuse, and impunity“ writes Human Rights Watch. Seeking for justice is full of danger in Guatemala. UN experts expressed concern about attacks on victims, plaintiffs and…
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Components for War
…Indonesia, from Turkey to Taiwan F-16’s with Dutch components are operated,” wrote Stop Wapenhandel already in 2003. Recently the Dutch government was asked about deliverances of military components (responsible for…
Brexit, arms production and export. Part I – UK – EU production relations
Brexit, arms production and export. Part I – UK – EU production relations The desperate call for ordurrrrrr is what comes to mind when speaking about Brexit, almost as if…
The Panel of Experts on arms exports to Libya
…flights, the aircraft were all chartered by the Turkish office of ProAir-CharterTransport GmbH132 and operated by Ukraine Air Alliance PJSC133 of Ukraine.” Remarkable is that about half of the number…
Hypersonic weapons: fast and dangerous
…hypersonic glide vehicles were pictured as a new danger. Although there was also some scepticism about the amount of bluff in the words of the Russian president. But a threat…
Frontex awards €50 million in border surveillance drone contracts to Airbus, IAI and Elbit
…devastating consequences, especially in light of recent publications about Frontex’ complicity in illegal pushbacks from Greece to Turkey and pull-backs to Libya. The involvement of Israeli companies IAI and Elbit,…
War in Ukraine, cover for EU’s all-out militarisation
…about European military spending: next to skyrocketing national military expenditures, the EU budget will be revised in 2023 and there are many calls for a substantial increase of European programs…
Belarus: arms industry and arms trade – an introduction
…the issue. So, if you know more about Belarus and its arms industry, or know people who know more, as organisers of this webinar we’d be very happy if you’d…
Why Switzerland doesn’t export arms to Ukraine
…them decades ago. While a fierce debate about re-exports is ongoing, there is a broad consensus among Swiss politicians not to allow direct exports to Ukraine. This article sheds some…
Border budgets and beneficiaries – after the EP elections
…had a budget of €5.5 million. Under the MFF 2007-2014 its annual budget grew to about €90-100 million a year. With the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ of 2015 a steep increase…