France
Gabriel Attal's tax intelligence unit idea faces headwinds

The Agencies' Gazette
Fiscal intelligence unit to start 2025, CICIR welcome in Berlin, Dating app for French officers, NZ archives and Chinese interference

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

FranceFiscal intelligence unit to get cracking in 2025

Germany/ChinaChinese intelligence think tank banned in Paris still welcome in Berlin

FranceNew dating app for French officers, a honeypot den?

New ZealandNZSIS releases archives in face of Chinese espionage and interference

France
French gendarmes top users of legal interception platform

In 2022, users of the French national interception platform PNIJ made 46,000 legal interception requests and filed 2.9 million requests for connection data. The Gendarmerie is the platform's number one user.

France
DPR to mount united front in the French Senate in support of CNCTR

While intelligence controls were left out of debates on the military planning law at France's Assemblée Nationale, senators are now putting the issue firmly back on the agenda.

France
Tracfin executives' exodus to private sector continues

Tracfin has seen a steady stream of departures as heavyweights take up posts in the private sector, spurred by repeated attempts at internal reform in a French financial intelligence service already rife with tensions, and amid accusations it is becoming politicised.

Spotlight | Belgium
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.

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.