Grant
36 supported projects match your criteria. View the awarded projects View map
Security for sale

Security for sale: the price to protect Europeans

BRUSSELS - 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 ...

Meer lezen
Spionage. Doelwit Brussel
© Kristof Clerix / Manteau

Espionage. Target Brussels

BRUSSELS - Investigative journalist Kristof Clerix (MO*) examined the espionage files of Prague, Berlin, Bucharest, Budapest, Sofia and Warsaw looking for the best Brussels 007 stories from the 70s and 80s. Exceptionally, Belgian State Security and Military Intelligence Service put some authentic ...

Meer lezen
Belgisch wapenarsenaal in Libië
© rr

Belgian arms depot in Libya

HERSTAL - Belgian military forces in Mali are at risk of being shot with Belgian weapons and munition that have fallen into the hands of Islamic rebels. The weapons come from Libya but were furnished by previous Belgian governments, material evidence and archive research shows. They have been ...

Meer lezen
Wapenhandel
© rr

Little to fear: arms dealers in Belgium

BRUSSELS - In 2003, Belgium adopted a law intended to control arms brokers. This law doesn't meet the European requirement and, furthermore, has never been applied by the authorities, although the problem was well known.

Meer lezen
Iedereen terrorist
© Denise Van den Broeck

Everybody's a terrorist!

ZAVENTEM - Never before did a terrorist attack have such an impact on daily life as 9/11. More than anything else, plane traveling became quite a bit more strenuous. Budgets for the war on terror are growing every year. Security forces want to intercept every possible terrorist and the security ...

Meer lezen
Unieke documenten belichten spionage in België
© Kristof Clerix

targetBRUSSELS

BRUSSELS - targetBRUSSELS gathers information on the activities of Eastern European secret services in Brussels during the Cold War. The research is based on the intelligence archives of the former German Democratic Republic, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Romania.

Meer lezen