France
French MPs slam special funds budget as miscalculated

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.

Spotlight | France
Far-right RN's intelligence approach consists of shadowy advisers and a silent former MP

France's far-right Rassemblement National party, which is bent on making Jordan Bardella prime minister, is cautious when it comes to intelligence. While an adviser to the party's leaders is keeping a close eye on the matter, its former member of a parliamentary intelligence delegation has kept a very low profile.

France
French intelligence's 2023 special funds budget blowout

Every year, the French domestic and external intelligence services overspend their underfunded special funds budget. 2023 was no exception.

The Agencies' Gazette
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

The Agencies' Gazette
No visa waiver for AUKUS, intelligence journal, anti-terrorist cooperation in Kyiv, tax informants

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

BeijingNo visa-free travel to China for AUKUS members

FranceFirst journal on French intelligence makes its debut

UkraineKyiv structures its international anti-terrorist cooperation

FranceTax informants proving profitable

France
France's parliamentary intelligence delegation laments missing classified documents

The parliamentary intelligence delegation has highlighted limitations on its mission to monitor and evaluate French intelligence policy, including heavily redacted notes and missing reports, and is calling for better treatment.

France
French intelligence services' spending surges before budget boost

The French government has earmarked more funding for intelligence over the next five years, but France's intelligence services, particularly the DGSE, have already exceeded their 2022 provisional budgets.