Lithuania and Estonia have been denied EU funding for their proposed “drone wall” project to protect their borders, the Lithuanian Interior Ministry has said.
“Estonian and Lithuanian border authorities had submitted a joint application for EU funding to develop a so-called “drone wall” along the border, but the project was not granted funding,” the ministry told BNS in a comment.
“Estonia was the main applicant and Lithuania was a partner,” it added.
Lithuania’s Border Guard Service (VSAT) told BNS that Brussels rejected the funding application in early March.
Last May, Agne Bilotaite, the then interior minister, announced that countries in the region had agreed to develop a so-called “drone wall”.
At the time, she told BNS that the initiative would involve using drones to monitor the border and deploying anti-drone systems. She did not say when the project might be implemented. (LRT)