{"id":950910,"date":"2026-05-10T17:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T17:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/950910\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T17:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T17:56:15","slug":"frontex-official-warns-of-post-war-ukraine-arms-smuggling-danger-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/950910\/","title":{"rendered":"Frontex official warns of post-war Ukraine arms-smuggling danger \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The deputy head of the EU\u2019s Frontex border control agency warned there is a \u201chigh\u201d risk of arms being smuggled from Ukraine to the EU in the event of a deal ending the war with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere could be weapons smuggling on a larger scale. That could become a security problem for Europe,\u201d Frontex Deputy Executive Director Lars Gerdes told WELT, owned by Axel Springer, which also owns POLITICO.<\/p>\n<p>He said that once the full-scale war that Russia launched four years ago ends, it would be \u201cquite possible\u201d for a repeat of the situation in former Yugoslavia, when illegal arms flooded into the rest of Europe after the fighting there ended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The deputy head of the EU\u2019s Frontex border control agency warned there is a \u201chigh\u201d risk of arms&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[91619,768,2000,299,5187,332,265431,657,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-950910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-arms-control","9":"tag-borders","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-russia","14":"tag-small-arms","15":"tag-ukraine","16":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116551574378464780","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}