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SPOTLIGHT

SPACE

EU Banks on Civil and Military Satellites

The United States presently devotes six times more public money to space than all European nations combined. That point was pressed home in January of this year when the European Union and European Space Agency (ESA) presented their ?Green Paper? (...) [ 685 words ] [ €8 ]

Networks & organizations

Influence : New Aerospace and Defence Lobby in Brussels [ FREE ]

Political Intelligence

INFLUENCE
Who are the "Siloviki" ?
	Behind the Yukos affair lie huge political, economic and strategic stakes which have been in play for months in Russia. Vladimir Putin is trying to retain the role of arbiter between high-profile ?liberals? and ?nationalists? who remain in the shadows. (...) [ 618 words ] [ €5 ]

BRUSSELS
Top U.S. Lobby Job Up for Grabs
	Competition for the job of Maja Wessels, director of governmental affairs for Honeywell Europe who is standing down as head of the American Chamber of Commerce in Brussels - AmCham EU - is now open. (...) [ 139 words ] [ €1,5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

PARIS
Jean-Marc Nasr
	Head of Spot Image since May, 2001, Jean-Marc Nasr is counting a lot on the launch of two Pleiades satellites in 2008 and 2009 by France's national space center CNES to boost his company's revenue and its capacity to pour money back into its business. (...) [ 209 words ] [ €1,5 ]

RAMMALLAH
Hakam Balawi
	The new Palestinian interior minister, Hakam Balawi, is unlikely to be overworked in his post. (...) [ 199 words ] [ €1,5 ]

PARIS
Forty New GPS for French Engineers
	France's 28th Groupe Geographique which forms part of the Brigade du Genie, is to be equipped with 40 Global Positioning System (GPS) surveying systems by the American firm Trimble. (...) [ 130 words ] [ €1,5 ]

ORGANIZATIONS

RIYADH
Laws for Iraq to be Drafted in Saudi Arabia
	Squire Sanders, one of the first American law firms to show an interest in the reconstruction of Iraq - it declared itself in May - has just announced its intention to set up shop in Riyadh in conjunction with the Saudi firm Abdulaziz al Assaf. (...) [ 236 words ] [ €5 ]

TOKYO
Rough Ride for Koancho Boss
	Recently named director-general of Japan's counter-espionage service, Machida Yukio is suffering indirectly from the erratic performance of his predecessor, Kifuji Shigeo, concerning the Aum sect and North Korean spies. (...) [ 350 words ] [ €5 ]

PARIS
Senior DGSE Man To Take Early Retirement
	The rumour had already been doing the rounds for some time but the news was confirmed officially in-house last week by the very person in question: (...) [ 149 words ] [ €5 ]

WASHINGTON
Don't Underestimate the Multilateral Approach
	In a new study commissioned by the US Air Force on anti-terrorism coalitions, the Rand Corporation is currently examining Washington's relations with NATO and the European Union. (...) [ 138 words ] [ €1,5 ]

DEFENSE
A Euro Arms Agency in Six Months?
	Barring a last minute surprise, the summit gathering of European heads of state and government in Brussels on Dec. 12-13 won't announce the creation of a future European armaments agency. (...) [ 206 words ] [ €5 ]

CORRUPTION
Sawari 2 the Missing Witness
	Although the Sawari 2 contract for the sale of French frigates to Saudi Arabia lies at the heart of the case, no mention of it appears in the 100 page indictment that will send former defense minister Francois Leotard before a Paris court on Monday (...) [ 293 words ] [ €5 ]

NEGOCIATIONS
Armitage owns up
	A few bland lines signed by deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage in the ? (...) [ 85 words ] [ €1,5 ]

TERRORISM
Iran Behind Attacks
	Following the Nov. 8 attack in Riyadh Iran appears to be an important logistic base for suicide assaults in both Iraq and Saudi Arabia. (...) [ 428 words ] [ €5 ]

Agenda

PARIS, DECEMBER 2-3
Future Energy Systems
	The annual ?Science et Defense 2003? seminar to be held in Paris on December 2-3 will deal primarily with the theme of ? (...) [ 135 words ] [ €1,5 ]

ISLAMABAD, DEC. 25-27
A Future for Islamic Research?
	The question of how to develop scientific research in Islamic nations will be the major topic at the 11th general assembly of COMSTECH which is to be held in Islamabad between Dec. (...) [ 120 words ] [ €1,5 ]

BOSTON, MARCH 22-25
SCIP 2004 in Boston
	The big annual business intelligence gathering organized by the Society of Competitive International Professionals (SCIP) will be held between March 22-25 in Boston. (...) [ 88 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Business Intelligence and Lobbying

	PARIS
	Will Raffarin Commit Himself?
		French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin - or, failing him, another minister - is scheduled to take part in a seminar on business intelligence at the French parliament on Dec. 1. (...) [ 360 words ] [ €5 ]

	WEAK SIGNALS
	After the cold war
		The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has just awarded a new one year contract to the SAIC company to provide ? (...) [ 76 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FIRMS

SHANGAI
Control Risks in China Operation
	The British risk management firm Control Risks Group (CRG) has just opened its first office in China in Shanghai. Up to now, CRG had followed events in China from Singapore. (...) [ 135 words ] [ €5 ]

PARIS
A Place for Business Intelligence in the Insurance Industry?
	Will the insurance business lend form and develop the fragmented business intelligence industry in France? That, at any rate, is the challenge which Pierre Donnersberg, boss of Assurances et Conseils Saint Honore, an affiliate of the LFC Rothshild group headed by Benjamin de Rothschild, set for himself two years ago. (...) [ 385 words ] [ €5 ]

BAGHDAD
Former French Soldiers in Iraq?
	The small private military outfit Earthwind Holding Corporation (EHC), based in Luxembourg and run by the French national Bruno Trinquier, managed over the past month to find work for two former French military men in Iraq under six month contracts. (...) [ 163 words ] [ €5 ]

	BRUSSELS
	Civil/Military Big Bang
		Intelligence Online understands that three big Brussels-based interest groups are going to merge in anticipation of the European Union's future role in defense issues. (...) [ 416 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

WASHINGTON
Kent Kresa
	No sooner had 65-year-old Kent Kresa stepped down as CEO and chairman of Northrop Grumann than he was appointed to the board of General Motors and made a senior adviser at the investment fund, The Carlyle Group. (...) [ 204 words ] [ €1,5 ]

BRUSSELS
Hans-Peter Martin
	The Euro MP Hans-Peter Martin, a former correspondent of the German weekly Der Spiegel in Austria who later turned his hand successfully to writing essays, seems anxious to take on the lobbying community in Europe. (...) [ 173 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Influence Strategy

	BAGHDAD
	How Iran Plays its Hand with Shi'ites
		The FBI and Abdulaziz al Hakim, the new head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq have totally different ideas about who ordered the assassination of Shi'ite leader Mohamed Bakr al Hakim on Aug. 29 in the holy city of Najaf. (...) [ 455 words ] [ €5 ]