William de Bruijn is a senior researcher at VPRO Broadcast Company (The Netherlands).

Modern historian (University of Amsterdam) and senior TV researcher (Backlight series, VPRO TV).

Together with twenty-one other journalists from eleven European countries, he investigated the European security sector. The result was a big scale journalismfund supported project dubbed 'Security for Sale'. 

Basic information

Name
William de Bruijn
Country
Netherlands
City
Amsterdam
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Security for sale: the price we pay to protect Europeans

  • Science
  • Terrorism

Since the late 1990s, the European Union has worked to encourage a European security market, where major defence and technology companies develop products and services that better protect us from crime and terrorism. This industry should also create jobs and be globally competitive. Over the past year, more than twenty journalists in eleven European countries investigated this burgeoning sector. And they discovered there’s a lot wrong with the European security market.

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