ALL ARTICLES - EUROPE

• BRUSSELS/WASHINGTON - Italy's chances fade for NATO top post

• JORDAN - Abdullah II's National Security Council struggles to emerge

• POLAND - Pressure on information and communication systems

• FRANCE - Comcyber remains blind to Beijing's cyber divisions

Specialist consultant Jeff Townsend plays key role in Westminster critical minerals debate 

PR consultant Jeff Townsend is currently in demand with the British authorities, who are alarmed about their dependence on China for rare metals. He is taking advantage of the situation to champion the creation of an industrial alliance between the Five Eyes countries in this domain.

US private security veteran Matthew Parker redeploys to Ukraine 

After hunkering down in Maryland for months, the director of the private security outfit Independent Security Advisors has won new contracts with the Ukrainian armed forces and law enforcement.

• WASHINGTON - Is the US clamping down on the cyber intelligence industry?

• MUNICH - Fabian Kaiser takes over ISTARI Global's office in Munich

• PARIS - Sacha Bailly, French Navy and Airbus veteran takes helm of Dataminr's defence activities in France

• BRUSSELS - Intelligence oversight committee gives green light to Belgian spyware development

• LONDON - Will Jenkins swaps Nardello for GPW 

• BETHESDA - RosettiStarr takes on Marsh & McLennan's security head

• NEW YORK - Eli Cherkasky speeds up the ladder at Exiger 

• LONDON - Russia specialist Resheniya closes shop

• LONDON - Hakluyt takes on more former Inter-Mediate talent
  

Synesis fights sanctions and informational attacks from Brussels to Warsaw 

Bypol, a grouping of anti-Lukashenko law enforcement officers in exile, has intensified its attacks on social media and keeps lobbying in the EU against the Belarusian facial recognition software developer.

Poland's Air Force Institute of Technology turns into defence partnerships hub 

Poland is pursuing the modernisation of its airborne surveillance capacities with French and other European defence companies through its Air Force Institute of Technology.

Information warfare: Washington provides funds to counter Chinese messaging in Italy 

The US State Department has given Italy's Istituto Affari Internazionali think tank financial help to contribute to the debate in that country on the risks posed by disinformation from the Chinese Communist Party. That was only the first operation in a wider-ranging US campaign to come in Europe.

• TURKEY - Iraq and Syria operations MIT's biggest expense

• FRANCE/UNITED STATES - US and UK left France out of loop over China pilot training

• RUSSIA/UKRAINE - Questions of Ukraine intel fail to shake Beseda from FSB
  

• FRANCE - Finance ministry's intelligence reform ramps up a notch

• UNITED KINGDOM/RUSSIA - Russian author takes swipe at MI6

Raedas extends its global client base through hire of star CIS lawyer 

The new head of client relations at London investigations firm Raedas will be expected to make use of her connections in regions ranging from Russia to Brazil in order to attract lawyers looking for backup on legal cases.