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

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Paris Club's Madrid meet, fired NSA ace joins CFR, cut in French intel's 2026 budget, China's retrospective scrutiny turns to PLA

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

SpainEuropean spy chiefs hold Madrid get-together

United StatesSacked by NSA, artificial intelligence whiz bounces back at think tank

FranceSpecial funding for intelligence down for 2026 budget

ChinaAfter Rocket Force, retrospective checks for PLA

France
New French PM François Bayrou starts job with only a tiny intelligence network

Appointed by French President Emmanuel Macron last Friday, Prime Minister François Bayrou will have to get to grips with the world of intelligence pretty quickly.

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Belarusian moles exposed, ex-DGSE admin boss moves to Lyon, NSC dishes out contracts, special funds-savvy MP

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

Belarus/PolandSpies and informants outed on both sides of regime

FranceEx-DGSE admin director takes on security in Lyon suburbs

United StatesNational Security Council still hiring before White House handover

FranceNew special funds oversight commissioner no newbie

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.

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
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
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.