Continental View

It’s tough times in the Baltics. I spoke with Andres Kiil, the head of the Estonian-based pan-Baltic integrator Pristis, this morning, and while we were mainly talking about his company’s recent acquisition of a stake in the Estonian security services company Skorpion, the conversation turned to the economy and business in general.
As an integrator [...]

Some may be questioning the economics of trade shows these days, but apparently not Clarion Events in the UK. After announcing this spring that it would launch a new security trade show in London in 2010 focused on the critical infrastructure market, the events organizer announced today that it is buying Counter Terror Expo, an [...]

Elections for the European Parliament are just around the corner (first week of June – exact dates vary country by country); you can find out voting days for your country with this interactive map.
Elections at the European level still take a backseat to national elections – you may not even know who your MEPs are, [...]

This is an interesting article with some kind of counter-intuitive advice for companies on not just surviving an economic downturn, but actually taking advantage of opportunities and thriving during hard economic times. It’s not specific to the security industry, but I think its general thrust applies across the board.
In a nutshell, the common reaction companies [...]

Barrack Obama was in Prague over the weekend as part of his European tour and, not surprisingly, security was pretty tight. The streets were crawling with police, the skies thick with helicopters and the rooftops dotted with masked snipers. After some crazy initial press reports (suggesting that people could literally bring nothing to his big [...]