Internal security and migration are merging under the guise of border management as the EU seeks to tighten controls on who leaves and enters the bloc.
Krum Garkov, who heads the Tallinn-based EU agency that oversees large-scale IT systems, described the merger as a fundamental shift that will also make border controls virtual.
"Border management today is going through a very fundamental transformation," he said earlier this week at a conference organised by Forum Europe in Brusse...
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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.