Border Profiteers
The Border Profiteers List is a database compiling companies which are involved with and profiting from the European border system. The fortification and externalisation of borders is not only driven by political interests but also by being a source of profit for an array of different companies from producers of surveillance equipment and weapons to concrete and food distribution for camps, consultant companies and research facilities.
The Border Profiteers List is a non-exhaustive and growing resource for civil society actors, researchers and activists. An online form to submit contributions to this list will be available here shortly.
As the Border Profiteers List relies on open and public sources we make no warranties about the completeness of information provided in this list. We also do not assume any legal liability or responsibility for outdated, incorrect, or incomplete information. However, we will address reports of outdated, incorrect, or incomplete information as quickly as possible.
A large proportion of the entries is based on research by the Informationsstelle Militarisierung (Information Centre for Militarisation).
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| Registered office | France - Paris |
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| Categories | advisory |
Civipol is a consulting company, 40% of which belongs to the French state and was founded primarily to support the French Ministry of the Interior. It also provides technical services for the Ministry, which in many other countries are carried out by the intelligence services. Accordingly, the largest shareholders, Airbus, Thales and Idemia, are mainly large defence and technology companies.
Read more| Registered office | United Kingdom - London |
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| Categories | advisory |
Deloitte is a global consulting firm headquartered in London and is one of the so-called "Big Four" auditing firms. It advises many offices, authorities and ministries and has already worked for almost all EU institutions - primarily in strategy consulting and human resources management tailored to this.
Read more| Registered office | Sweden - Stockholm |
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| Categories | advisory |
Ericsson is a Swedish communications service provider with a long tradition. The company offers government agencies special networks for communication (government radio) and thus fundamentally benefits from the growing exchange of information and data volumes.
Read more| Registered office | Spain - Madrid |
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| Categories | advisory |
Indra has its roots in the infrastructure and defense industries. Accordingly, Indra has also benefited extensively from several EU armaments research projects (including Ocean2020), positioning itself, by its own admission, as a "key player" in siphoning off EU armaments funds. Again, the company's focus is on information networks, cybersecurity, near-shore surveillance and unmanned systems.
In the 2021 financial year, Indra achieved revenue of € 3.390 million, had 52,000 employees, a local presence in 46 countries and business operations in over 140 countries.
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