International Delegation to Investigate Gun Trade to Mexico: European weapons accelerate violence in Mexico

27th February 2023By Laëtitia SédouPress release

ENAAT participated in an International Delegation to investigate the flow of guns and light weapons to Mexico, and how this contributes to serious human rights violations impacting all of the Mexican people. The mission took place from 18 to 25 February 2023, and participants from ENAAT were Charlotte from Ohne Rüstung Leben (Germany), Francesco Vignarca  … Read More

Press Release: “All you want to know about who benefits from EU military and security funding”

8th November 2022By Laëtitia SédouEuropean Union, Press release

8 November 2022, Brussels (.pdf versions available in English and French) As of today the public platform Open Security Data Europe, listing beneficiaries of EU security funding, expands to EU research and development (R&D) grants in the military field. The database gives a unique overview of which companies, research centres and public agencies receive EU funding … Read More

‘ExitArms’ database reveals EU funded arms producers export to warring parties

30th June 2022By Laëtitia SédouEuropean Union, Finance, Press release

This week, the environmental and human rights organizations Facing Finance and Urgewald published the “ExitArms” database: www.exitarms.org. It is the first publicly available, global database on companies supplying arms to warring states. The launch is supported by ENAAT, the European Network Against Arms Trade. So far, the database covers the years 2015 to 2020. It … Read More

‘Fanning the Flames: how the EU is fuelling a new arms race’ – New report

17th March 2022By Laëtitia SédouEuropean Union, lobbying and revolving doors, Press release

We release today our new report ‘Fanning the Flames: how the EU is fuelling a new arms race’, in collaboration with TNI Days after European leaders agreed to drastically increase military spending at the Versailles Summit,our report reveals how the EU’s first defence programmes worth almost €600 million are marred in conflicts of interest, corruption allegations, and fall significantly short of meeting the most … Read More

17/03, 11am CET: ENAAT and TNI launch new report on EU Defence Fund implementation

14th March 2022By Laëtitia SédouEuropean Union, lobbying and revolving doors, Press release

Las week at the  ‘Versailles informal Summit’, EU leaders agreed to “bolstering [their] defence capabilities” by “increasing substantially defence expenditures” and focusing on investment and collaborative development of capabilities. In other words, more money should be poured to the arms industry for developing weaponry. ENAAT and TNI are publishing on Thursday 17 March a very timely … Read More

Italian government revokes bomb export licenses to Saudi Arabia and UAE

1st February 2021By Laëtitia SédouMiddle East, Press release

“The Italian government revokes bomb export licenses to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates: civil society organizations welcome the decision  The export of Italian weapons used in the horrific conflict in Yemen has been permanently stopped. These exports were authorized by licenses issued by the Italian export authority UAMA after the conflict in Yemen … Read More

Activists protest presence of war criminals at European conference

28th November 2019By Laëtitia SédouEuropean Union, Press release

Today, arms industry representatives and European policy makers are meeting at the European Defence Agency’s annual conference: “Taking European Defence Cooperation to the Next Level”. A Freedom of Information request filed by the Belgian NGO Vredesactie shows that more than 230 arms company representatives received an invitation to the conference. A dozen NGOs and peace organisations … Read More