EU border agency keen to expand Mediterranean Sea surveillance

The Mediterranean Sea remains largely outside the surveillance scope of member states and the Warsaw-based EU border agency Frontex.
Edgar Beugels, head of research and development at Frontex, told reporters in Brussels on Monday 18 March 2013 that the agency is looking at different technologies to increase the “situational awareness” of the EU’s external borders, including the use of drones or so-called remotely piloted aircraft (RPA).

• Primary Source

FRONTEX: Work programmes http://www.frontex.europa.eu/

ESO: Background information: The Arab Spring and the death toll in the Mediterranean: the true face of Fortress Europe http://www.europeansources.info/record/the-arab-spring-and-the-death-toll-in-the-mediterranean-the-true-face-of-fortress-europe/

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