Here, there and everywhere: National Strategic Review wants intelligence services on all fronts

Defence ministry ponders DGRIS reform as armed forces influence debated 

France's directorate general of international relations and strategy, part of the French Ministry of Armed Forces, is to undergo structural reform even as parliament debates a new military programming law. Meanwhile, the directorate's management has been subject to internal criticism.

• FRANCE - DGSI's new recruitment cell.
  

• RUSSIA - A new deputy for Zolotov.

• ISRAEL/ALBANIA - Tel Aviv pledges cyber security boost to Tirana.
  

• FRANCE/RUSSIA - Moscow loses case in Paris court.

French intelligence services foreign cooperation: the government and parliament are planning new laws 

It is likely that the France will be condemned by the European Court of Human Rights for its lack of a framework for exchanges with foreign services. It is thus working on legislative changes, without including the control commission in discussions.

French parliament mulls over government's capacity for strategic anticipation 

A parliamentary report by French MP Jean-Charles Larsonneur published late last month raises the need for heightened cooperation on strategic anticipation at an inter-ministerial level, and not only within the intelligence services.

French ministries battle for influence over online counterinterference effort 

The French foreign and defence ministries are vying for leadership on strategic communication in response to foreign propaganda, while Viginum, an agency created to fight online interference, and the intelligence services are increasingly cooperating on its monitoring.

French intelligence regroups to better cover war in Ukraine 

After being caught out by the start of the conflict, France's intelligence services have since restructured and are taking more decisive action on Russia's invasion of Ukraine. But that has come with some serious soul-searching.

Paris seeks to grasp the fluid concept of lawfare 

"Lawfare", defined as the instrumentalisation of the law by a state for strategic purposes, is currently the focus of France's SGDSN defence and national security secretariat, which is looking for ways to counter US and soon Chinese regulations imposed on French industry.

Elysée Palace weighs in to solve French intel staffing woes 

Understaffed units, top-heavy management, recruitment difficulties and brain drain are among the human resources challenges that intelligence coordinator Laurent Nunez's team has been entrusted with tackling.

Five years after intelligence recruitment drive in wake of Paris terror attacks, staffing issues persist 

Intelligence services' human resources departments are struggling to retain and integrate large numbers of contractual staff hired in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks.