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09.01.2012. The European Union is
implementing a new border management system with tougher migration control the
core aim. Major security and weapons companies are already reaping the
benefits.
Frontex, the EU border agency, has
financed major weapons and security equipment producers to present their
equipment in demonstrations. European national border guards have participated
in these demonstrations as potential customers, IPS learns.
Frontex confirmed to IPS that the agency
has been paying weapons and security equipment manufacturers to participate in
demonstrations of equipment which national agencies attended as potential
customers.
“In the case of companies Lockheed Martin,
FAST Protect AG, L-3 Communications, FLIR Systems, SCOTTY Group Austria,
Diamond Airborne Sensing and Inmarsat, it (the reimbursement) was 30,000
euros,” the agency told IPS in an emailed response.
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