France
France's parliamentary intelligence delegation laments missing classified documents

France
French intelligence services' special funds will fall in 2025... unless needs must

The just-announced French budget is planning to reduce the allocation of special funds for intelligence by €4m, yet this is only a theoretical cut, since the government has a regular habit of then making additional payments each year.

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Foreign interference in France, Russia's 201st base in Tajikistan, Beijing snubs Marseille

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

France A draft bill to combat foreign interference

Russia/Tajikistan Moscow honours its favourite military historian in Dushanbe

France/China Beijing snubs Marseille's Euromaritime Festival

France
French MPs slam special funds budget as miscalculated

There is a recurring theme in the French special funds verification committee's detailed 2021 report: those funds' budgets are systematically underestimated.

France
Senate hits gender parity problem over nominations to intelligence oversight commission

Following the French senatorial elections in September, the French Senate has had to renew its representatives on two intelligence service oversight bodies. Yet the Socialist group has hit a gender parity problem over its nominations to one of them.

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.