
Border guards patrolling Greece’s frontier with North Macedonia to prevent irregular crossings have long relied on an unusual early-warning system: the storks nesting on a bridge over the Axios River. When the birds suddenly scatter, officers know someone is likely moving in the bushes below — usually migrants trying to slip out of Greece and head toward Northern Europe. Soon, their role will be obsolete.
Smart border technology, cameras, and drones, will take their place — tireless, unblinking, and financed by Brussels. Greece plans to extend the high-tech surveillance model it built along the Evros land border with Turkey — designed to stop asylum seekers entering the European Union — to its northern frontier. The aim this time is to seal the exit routes used for secondary movement toward Western Europe.
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