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Spotlight | European Union, Poland
Polish intelligence to host Europe's spymasters despite inner turmoil

By Antoine Izambard

Published on 27.04.2026 at 04:00 GMT Reading time 3 min

The next meeting of the ‘Club de Paris’ will take place in Warsaw at the end of May. © Jaap Arriens/Xinhua News Agency/Newscom/MaxPPP

Intelligence coordinators from 17 European countries are to meet next month on the banks of the Vistula. The gathering of the so-called Club de Paris comes with Polish intelligence in the middle of a political crisis.

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Spotlight | European Union, Poland
Polish intelligence to host Europe's spymasters despite inner turmoil