France
French Parliamentary committee on Intelligence report calls for greater collaboration between domestic intelligence services

The Agencies' Gazette
PKK leaders, DGSI, SCO, DoS in Georgia, France-Ukraine

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community. This week, from Sinjar to Paris via Shanghai, Kyiv, Washington and Tbilisi.

IraqPKK renews high command's mandate and reaffirms strategic priorities

FranceDGSI's role in counterterrorism secured

Russia/ChinaBeijing counts on Russia to promote SCO

USA/GeorgiaWashington confirms its commitment to Tbilisi

France/UkraineFlorence Parly sticks to low estimate on Paris's Ukraine spending

United Kingdom
UK made to tighten interception overwatch by European justice despite Brexit

As a result of the European Court of Human Rights' Big Brother Watch ruling, the Investigatory Powers Commissioner's Office has, for the first time, looked into some of the GCHQ's bulk data collection, storage and processing protocols.

France
French public spending watchdog calls for merger of gendarmerie and police domestic intelligence services

In the name of greater efficiency, the French Cour des Comptes wants to break an old taboo by merging the gendarmerie's intelligence units and the police-dominated Service Central du Renseignement Territorial (SCRT). For the time being, however, the government has no plans to do this.

France
Parliament doesn't want to expand control on exchange agreements between foreign intelligence services and France's

The commission reviewing France's intelligence law, led by MPs Guillaume Larrivé, Loïc Kervran and Jean-Michel Mis, submitted its report to parliament on June 9. The thick document, at which Intelligence Online has been able to have a look, recommends a number of reforms to the legal framework governing the intelligence services.

Europe
Five watchdogs team to track intelligence exchanges

Five countries' intelligence commissions have begun to cooperate this month to monitor the international exchange of information between intelligence services. [...]