Market Forces the Development of the EU Security - Industrial Complex

Despite the economic crisis, EU funding for new security tools and technologies will double in the 2014-20 period compared to the previous 6 years. The biggest winners have been the “homeland security” industry whose influence on European policy continues to grow, constructing an ever more militarised and security-focused Europe.

Contents:

• EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
• INTRODUCTION: SECURITY FOR WHOM, FROM WHAT?
• THE EMERGENCE OF A EUROPEAN SECURITY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
• Pursuing the “ultimate goal”
• Security research: a €1.4 billion networking exercise
• Reinforcing the fortress
• The long arm of the law
• Freedom, security and justice?
• PUBLIC INTEREST, PRIVATE DIALOGUE
• Visions of the future
• The “end-to-end approach”: a state-corporate merger
• Friends on the inside: shaping legislation
• Joining the dots: public-private partnership
• BUILDING THE ‘SECURITY UNION’
• The price of security
• All-seeing eyes: fighting crime and terrorism
• The walls around us all: border security
• The devil is in the digital: cybersecurity
• Disaster resilience: unknown unknowns need all-purpose surveillance
• CONCLUSIONS: THE ROAD TO HELL?
• Annex 1: Top 50 recipients of ESRP funds to December 2016
• Annex 2: National distribution of the Internal Security Fund
• List of acronyms used in this report

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