Home /Analyses /2024 /Border security with drones and databasesBorder security with drones and databasesThe EU’s borders are increasingly militarised, with hundreds of millions of euros paid to state agencies and military, security and IT companies for surveillance, patrols and apprehension and detention. This situation is the result of long-term political and corporate efforts to toughen up border surveillance and controls. [2]The EU’s border agency, Frontex, based in Warsaw, was first set up in 2004 with the aim of providing technical coordination between EU member states’ border guards. [7]This is only a tiny fraction of the funds available for strengthening the EU’s border regime. There are now EU border guards stationed in Albania, Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and North Macedonia.
