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Re:Galileo navigation satellite system goes live by lorenzhs on Saturday December 17, 2016 @05:37PM (#13203114)
Galileo is a civilian project, though. It has features that are limited to police, border security, military, etc but it's an EU project. The EU doesn't have an army (its member states do, but the EU doesn't).
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Re:Galileo navigation satellite system goes live by kuschku on Saturday December 17, 2016 @06:41PM (#13203419)
The EU does have a coast and border guard, though, which is a paneuropean military entity.
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Re:Galileo navigation satellite system goes live by jaakl on Sunday December 18, 2016 @04:21AM (#13205027)
Can you be more specific? I live few kilometers from EU outer border with a hostile country, but have never seen or heard of such paneuropen guards. AFAIK paneuropean is only a law which requires every country to guard all their borders, and only non-national military we have is NATO.
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Re:Galileo navigation satellite system goes live by dglancy on Sunday December 18, 2016 @05:59AM (#13205320)
Frontex (http://frontex.europa.eu), its more of a co-ordination agency, but it does I believe have its own staff on secondment to it.
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Re:Galileo navigation satellite system goes live by kuschku on Sunday December 18, 2016 @02:38PM (#13207191)
It was established in July 2016 to replace Frontex and national border guards, as response to the refugee crisis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Border_and_Coast_Guar...

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