– Small and Medium-sized Enterprises SMEs) account for around 70% of contractors in both EU and Greek national standalone and implementing agreements, yet they received a much smaller percentage of the total procurement value, with most of the funds awarded to SMEs going to medium-sized companies. • Continued reliance on multinational corporations like Airbus and G4S, who are also involved in contributing to violence, rights violations, and violent displacement overseas, including genocidal settler colonial violence in Palestine. • A shift towards techno-centric methods of border control and surveillance, with large-scale investment in technologies used to detect and monitor migrants at Greece’s borders. Contracts for border surveillance and operational technology comprised 44% €234 million) of EU framework contracts awarded, which were largely purchases by Frontex of drones and piloted aircraft. At the national level, the Ministries of Defence, Maritime Affairs, and Citizen Protection all likewise bought drones, electro-optical and radar equipment used to detect, intercept, and violently return migrants in pushback operations. • Large scale outsourcing of labour and services integral to EU and Greek governmental functions. Service contracts made up 70% the value of contracts analysed. At the EU level, the considerable outsourcing of staffing to private companies through these service contracts raises serious accountability and transparency concerns, given the integral role these staff members (who include interpreters, asylum experts, and consultants) play in implementing the EU’s border policies. • Significant use of Closed Procurement Procedures. While the majority of EU contracts were awarded following open tenders, significant, high-value contracts (worth approximately €120 million) were awarded in closed procedures. In Greece, two closed procedures accounted for 78.2% of expenditure by the various 7