ALL ARTICLES - BELGIUM

• SINGAPORE/NEW YORK - Stoneturn loses China-focused investigator

• LONDON - New firm linked to sports integrity pro Paul Beeby

• BRUSSELS - EU delegation to Pretoria boosts security

• LONDON - Dentons picks Adrian Stones
  

• WASHINGTON - Is the US clamping down on the cyber intelligence industry?

• MUNICH - Fabian Kaiser takes over ISTARI Global's office in Munich

• PARIS - Sacha Bailly, French Navy and Airbus veteran takes helm of Dataminr's defence activities in France

• BRUSSELS - Intelligence oversight committee gives green light to Belgian spyware development

• LONDON - CRA seeks replacement for Panes.

• BRUSSELS/PARIS - Amarante strengthens position in Iraq with Falcon.
  

• LONDON - Brahmachari returns to Control Risks.

• WASHINGTON - Nadia Schadlow connects newcomer Sigma7 with Ergo.

Paris, Brussels and London strengthen their intelligence cooperation in the Channel 

As the number of migrants trying to cross their shared maritime borders increases, the United Kingdom, France and Belgium are increasingly sharing their intelligence on the subject, generating new business opportunities for the surveillance sector.

Government and intelligence regulator clash over interception law reform 

With its access to phone record lists cut off first by the CJEU then a Belgian court, Alexander De Croo's government - prompted by its intelligence services - wants to reintroduce this option in national law, much to the concern of intelligence oversight panel Comité R.

Major standoff afoot within NATO over hack back views 

To hack back or not to hack back? NATO's European members are at odds with the US's drive to make the alliance's cyber defence policy more offensive, which raises the question of its abilities to attribute cyberattacks, a highly political matter.

Belgian army benchmarks anti-drone systems before launching procurement 

The Belgian military, which is currently preparing to issue a call for tenders for anti-drone systems, has been meeting the main providers of the anti-drone market.

Belgian intelligence pushes for reform amid increasing restrictions 

Belgium's external and internal intelligence agency, the VSSE, has reiterated the need for its agents and informers to have more leeway to conduct certain acts that are currently illegal so they can better perform their infiltration missions, whether virtual or physical.

Belgian intelligence grapples with prohibition of bulk collection and storage of data by phone operators 

Belgium's constitutional court followed the hard line taken by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in a landmark ruling last October, making the intelligence services' work more complicated.

Seris and G4S in difficulty after being hit by US prosecution over NATO and Pentagon contracts in Belgium 

Seris and G4S's Belgian subsidiaries have been indicted, along with several of their former senior executives, with bid rigging over private security contracts from NATO and the Pentagon. This will complicate their participation in future US tender calls.

France and Belgium head down different paths over CJEU data bulk collection ruling, paving the way for cooperation issues 

French and Belgian administrative courts differ greatly in their interpretation of the CJEU's data bulk collection and storage ruling of 6 October 2020: the French Council of State allows flexibility for the security apparatus while Belgian's constitutional court has taken a "no quarter" approach.

Puigdemont case raises questions 

Presented to the Belgian Parliament on 29 December, the latest [...]

After Cameron success, VSSE looks to make bigger splash internationally 

While Belgium's State Security Service, or VSSE, is relishing being [...]

In the midst of reform, SGRS boast his enhanced cooperation with VSSE 

Along with calls for more personnel and equipment, the 2019 [...]

R Committee not worried about classified leaks 

Allied intelligence services that cooperate with their counterparts in Belgium [...]

State Security lifts lid on Belgian intelligence weaknesses 

The recently published annual report from the R Permanent Committee sheds new light on some of the criticisms leveled by its European counterparts against the Belgian intelligence services.

Ablyazov's secret lobbying against Chodiev 

According to our sources, Mukhtar Ablyazov, the dissident Kazakh oligarch, has been in contact with the Belgian parliamentary commission that [...]