The massive expansion of the budget, personnel, and powers of the EU’s border agency Frontex has also seen increasingly privileged access for industry. This perpetuates a vision of border control based on more and more firearms and biometric surveillance that has major human rights implications.
Author(s): Douo, Myriam; Izuzquiza, Luisa; Silva, Margarida
Publisher or Journal: Corporate Europe Observatory
Year of Publication: 2021
Document Type: Report
Link: https://corporateeurope.org/en/lobbying-fortress-europe