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Drones are seen as new major threat in Europe and part of wider arsenal of Russian hybrid warfare (Photo: NATO)

Mixed message on Frontex future role in drone detection

Drones used by the EU's border agency Frontex will only be for border surveillance, the European Commission has stated — after its migration chief Magnus Brunner suggested otherwise.

"This is about border surveillance, so about detecting, finding things that happen, for example, at sea," Markus Lammert, a commission spokesperson told...

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Drones are seen as new major threat in Europe and part of wider arsenal of Russian hybrid warfare (Photo: NATO)

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

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