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Ilkka Salmi, number two in the European Commission's Human Resources Directorate-General. © Raquel Manzanares/EFE/Newscom/MaxPPP

European Commission gives its managers extra security training

The European Security and Defence College and the Intelligence College in Europe are to set up additional security training sessions for European Commission executives.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 05.05.2025

Security guards stand at an entrance gate of the European Union compound in Kabul on 8 February 2024. © Wakil Kohsar/AFP

IDG wins EU's huge Afghan security contract

The European Union has decided to entrust the security of its diplomats in Afghanistan to a new operator. The move is a serious blow to France's Amarante International, which previously held the contract worth over €70m.

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 30.04.2025

European Space Agency enters military space... after hurriedly reading up on the sector

The head of the European Space Agency, Josef Aschbacher, has announced plans to develop a €21 billion network of military-grade observation satellites. But not before urgently brushing up his knowledge of the sector.

Subscribers only Surveillance & Interception 17.04.2025

Frontex wants its own intelligence data fusion system

The European Union's Innovation Hub for Internal Security has signalled that it wants to develop a border surveillance system unifying national systems and the resources of its own border surveillance body, Frontex.

Subscribers only Surveillance & Interception 14.04.2025

China mandates academics to win over Europe

The Chinese Communist Party wants to make the most of the rift forming across the Atlantic and is sending research groups to restore its reputation in Europe.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 03.04.2025

EU's Ukraine focus leaves Indo-Pacific security programmes wanting

A Malaysian Navy sailor patrolling near Langkawi Island, Malaysia in 2015. The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency recently requested training for its coastguards under the EU's ESIWA security programme. © Fazry Ismail/EPA/MaxPPP

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 20.03.2025

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The geopolitical power plays in Earth observation

As global strategic rivalries return to the fore - in Ukraine, Gaza, the Taiwan Straight and in Africa, where Russia is a force to be reckoned with - accumulating crises are influencing the spy-satellite power players: who observes what, who sets up where, who sows alliances with whom and, increasingly, who releases what data publicly.

Subscribers only Surveillance & Interception 05.05.2025

© Mark Astakhov/Alexyz3d/iStock//Montage : Bénédicte Gouttebroze/Indigo Publications

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CIA sends placatory mission to Europe

As Europe strives to adapt to Donald Trump's about-turns, the US foreign intelligence agency has sent some of its officers on a tour of European capitals to strengthen ties with their counterparts while their chiefs hold parallel meetings.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 19.03.2025

CIA Director John Ratcliffe (L) and US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on 4 March 2025.

US intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard expected in Europe this week

Donald Trump's new Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, will travel to Europe this week, according to our sources. Her tour is expected to include a meeting in Paris with the French national intelligence coordinator.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 07.03.2025

The United States' Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Tulsi Gabbard.

EU defence summit: Paris positioning itself on nuclear, AI and space imagery

EU leaders gathered for an extraordinary summit in Brussels yesterday to discuss European rearmament and Ukraine ahead of another meeting in Paris next week of the block's chiefs of staff. France is pushing for a leading role on nuclear power, artificial intelligence and space imagery.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 06.03.2025

European intelligence joins forces to shed light on Chinese Communist Party's internal rivalries

Several European intelligence services are pooling information in an attempt to find out more about alleged rifts within the Chinese Communist Party.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 25.02.2025

Beijing's new spy satellite orbiting over Africa is thorn in NATO's side

The media followed the launch of the Chinese intelligence satellite TJS-14 on 23 January, but did not pay attention to its final destination. It now appears that it was positioned late last week in a geosynchronous orbit that is particularly intrusive for NATO as it is in the middle of its members' constellations, including the French Syracuse.

Subscribers only Surveillance & Interception 10.02.2025

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Trump-Putin talks: Kyiv and allies betting on US envoy's adviser Ludovic Hood

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are planning a one-on-one meeting to settle the fate of Ukraine. Kyiv and its European allies want a seat at the table, and are pinning their hopes on the US special envoy to Russia and Ukraine's adviser Ludovic Hood.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 05.02.2025

Ludovic Hood, the chief of staff and counselor to the US special envoy on Russia and Ukraine Keith Kellogg.

Maritime security firms defend role in Red Sea as shipping lines contemplate return

Amid an extended hiatus in attacks in the Bab al-Mandab strait, the European shipping community is cautiously hopeful of a return to the region. But there are concerns over what the industry should expect from its armed escort teams.

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 27.01.2025

An employee of Greek maritime security company Diaplous using ship tracking software, in Athens, 1st April 2024.

European Red Sea mission remains at full capacity despite ceasefire

The EU's Operation Aspides continues, despite a four-week lull in attacks in the Bab al-Mandab strait. Meanwhile, as the new Gaza ceasefire takes hold, questions are being raised about how the area's most serious attacks could have been prevented.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 23.01.2025

The oil tanker Sounion, belonging to Greek firm Delta Tankers, was seriously damaged by a drone attack in the Red Sea last August.

Running story
Chinese influence and interference in Western Europe

The Chinese Communist Party has stepped up efforts to spread its influence in Europe. Whether it be through students, academics, "friends of China" groups or cultural players, China's ruling party is initiating new channels of communication coordinated directly by the United Front Work Department.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 23.01.2025

The 19th National CCP Congress in October 2017.

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5 Percy Street, home to Kremlin influencers from London to Bucharest

The discreet building in the middle of the British capital has already been identified as the legal address of several Russian intelligence operations in Europe. Intelligence Online can reveal that it is also home to a network of Romanian influencers close to the Russian embassy in Bucharest.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 20.12.2024

UP42 sale gives Airbus breathing space in Riyadh and at home

The Saudi state-owned Neo Space Group's purchase of space observation services platform UP42 marks a leap forward for the country's geospatial intelligence capabilities. It also comes as a relief for the seller, Airbus Defence and Space.

Subscribers only Surveillance & Interception 10.12.2024

EU intelligence reorganises and adapts to hybrid threats

The small intelligence structure within the European Union's military staff has little operational power but is nonetheless seeking to step up its analysis of new hybrid threats. Russia is not mentioned in the internal documents consulted by Intelligence Online, but it is on everyone's mind.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 06.12.2024

The former Finnish president, Sauli Niinistö, seen here on 30 October 2024 in Brussels, wants to make the exchange of intelligence at the EU level a priority.

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Nord Stream shareholders still in the dark over sabotage

As the German police investigation progresses slowly, it is still unclear who was behind the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines two years ago. European shareholders and their Russian partner Gazprom want their questions answered.

Free access Government Intelligence 05.12.2024

The Nord Stream 1 gas leak in the Baltic Sea, on 28 September 2022.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
S-RM, Secretariat, BDMN, European Investment Bank

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: each week, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community.

New YorkS-RM takes on Richard Fogarty

Hong KongEx-FTI group expands at Secretariat

LondonEx-Met boss drops his police contracts

Luxembourg cityEuropean Investment Bank doubles client investigation budget

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 04.12.2024

Taliban licence war to scoop €100m EU protection jackpot

Competition for the contract to provide armed protection for EU diplomats in Afghanistan is more fraught than ever, despite its importance heralding Europe's return to Kabul.

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 02.12.2024

Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani grants licences to operate private security activities in Afghanistan.

The Intelligence Gazette
DGSE construction staff screened, New UK Special Boat Service Association boss, Death penalty for China propaganda official, Le Cercle meets in Bucharest

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

FranceMass screening of construction staff working on DGSE new building

United KingdomFormer national security adviser Mark Sedwill buoys up Special Boat Service Association

ChinaDeath penalty for propaganda traitor

Europe/United StatesHighly secretive club Le Cercle convenes in Bucharest

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 18.11.2024

Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe draws Chechen separatists' attention

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is setting up a new committee for the ‘democratisation of Russia'. Besides the Russian opposition figures invited to take part, representatives of the Chechen diaspora want to use the platform to push their political agenda.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 29.10.2024

Eerik-Niiles Kross, of Estonia's Reform Party, is to chair a new committee dedicated to the 'democratisation of Russia'.

Running story
Chechen separatism, the anti-Putin trump card

Ever since the start of the war in Ukraine, opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime and that of his Chechen counterpart Ramzan Kadyrov have been busy organising themselves from exile in Europe, preparing for the independence of Chechnya.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 29.10.2024

The Prime Minister of the government in exile of the Chechen Republic of Itchkeria, Akhmed Zakayev, at a demonstration to mark the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in Brussels (Belgium), February 2023.

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European Commission gives its managers extra security training

IDG wins EU's huge Afghan security contract

European Space Agency enters military space... after hurriedly reading up on the sector

Frontex wants its own intelligence data fusion system

China mandates academics to win over Europe

EU's Ukraine focus leaves Indo-Pacific security programmes wanting

Running story The geopolitical power plays in Earth observation

Spotlight CIA sends placatory mission to Europe

US intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard expected in Europe this week

EU defence summit: Paris positioning itself on nuclear, AI and space imagery

European intelligence joins forces to shed light on Chinese Communist Party's internal rivalries

Beijing's new spy satellite orbiting over Africa is thorn in NATO's side

Spotlight Trump-Putin talks: Kyiv and allies betting on US envoy's adviser Ludovic Hood

Maritime security firms defend role in Red Sea as shipping lines contemplate return

European Red Sea mission remains at full capacity despite ceasefire

Running story Chinese influence and interference in Western Europe

Spotlight 5 Percy Street, home to Kremlin influencers from London to Bucharest

UP42 sale gives Airbus breathing space in Riyadh and at home

EU intelligence reorganises and adapts to hybrid threats

Spotlight Nord Stream shareholders still in the dark over sabotage

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice S-RM, Secretariat, BDMN, European Investment Bank

New YorkS-RM takes on Richard Fogarty

Hong KongEx-FTI group expands at Secretariat

LondonEx-Met boss drops his police contracts

Luxembourg cityEuropean Investment Bank doubles client investigation budget

Taliban licence war to scoop €100m EU protection jackpot

The Intelligence Gazette DGSE construction staff screened, New UK Special Boat Service Association boss, Death penalty for China propaganda official, Le Cercle meets in Bucharest

FranceMass screening of construction staff working on DGSE new building

United KingdomFormer national security adviser Mark Sedwill buoys up Special Boat Service Association

ChinaDeath penalty for propaganda traitor

Europe/United StatesHighly secretive club Le Cercle convenes in Bucharest

Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe draws Chechen separatists' attention

Running story Chechen separatism, the anti-Putin trump card

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China, Europe, India, Russia, Saudi Arabia, UAE, United States
The geopolitical power plays in Earth observation

France
Intelligence memos and grey zones before French courts

Ukraine
Jamming wars

Armenia, Azerbaijan, France
Information wars in the Caucasus

Israel
Israeli cyber bounces back after NSO woes

Insiders | China
Security, propaganda and the PLA: Xi Jinping forges new networks of influence

Insiders | Qatar
Barzan Holdings, Qatar's defence industry giant springing up out of the desert

Running story
The geopolitical power plays in Earth observation

Spotlight
CIA sends placatory mission to Europe

Spotlight
Trump-Putin talks: Kyiv and allies betting on US envoy's adviser Ludovic Hood

Running story
Chinese influence and interference in Western Europe

Spotlight
5 Percy Street, home to Kremlin influencers from London to Bucharest

Spotlight
Nord Stream shareholders still in the dark over sabotage

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
S-RM, Secretariat, BDMN, European Investment Bank

The Intelligence Gazette
DGSE construction staff screened, New UK Special Boat Service Association boss, Death penalty for China propaganda official, Le Cercle meets in Bucharest

Running story
Chechen separatism, the anti-Putin trump card