Ambani is the key intermediary for the French military-industrial complex in India. ©Bloomberg FRANCE / INDIA Published on 16/08/2017 Business moghul Ambani is key partner for defence contracts between France and India
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FRANCE 30/01/2013 DCRI promotes trio of women chiefs DCRI chief Patrick Calvar has placed women in charge of three key divisions as part of a shake-up at the intelligence service. [...]
CHINAEUROPE 05/09/2012 CCP probes Europes economic crisis Two rival Chinese Communist Party (CCP) political and economic intelligence networks have recently sent teams all over Europe to measure [...]
FRANCE 23/05/2012 Orion sheds light for Socialists Several experts from the Socialist defence working group Orion have joined new French President Francois Hollande's ministerial cabinets. [...]
FRANCE 25/04/2012 Socialists pledge arms trade controls France will move swiftly to tighten controls on the arms trade if Socialist candidate Francois Hollande comes to power in the presidential elections in May. [...]
FRANCE 04/04/2012 Corporate intelligence under Socialists The Jean Jaures Foundation, which is close to the French Socialist Party, will publish a memorandum on corporate intelligence on [...]
Breaking news FRANCE 16/02/2012 Private Security Companies: MPs suggestions A facts-finding report on private military companies drafted (IOL 640) by Jean-Claude Viollet, a Socialist Party MP, and Christian Ménard [...]
FRANCE 08/02/2012 Socialist MP proposes tapping permit Free Jean-Jacques Urvoas, the secretary-general of the Socialist Party, has drafted a bill to reform intelligence gathering in France. [...]
Spotlight FRANCE 25/01/2012 Regulating Internet filter exports With France’s presidential elections only three months away, defence and intelligence specialists at both the Socialist Party and the ruling UMP agree on at least one thing – the need to regulate the exportation of Internet monitoring technology. To date, [...]
Spotlight FRANCE 02/02/2011 French Socialists focus on intelligence With France’s 2012 presidential elections looming, the Socialist Party has been busy mapping out what it will do with the country’s intelligence services in the event of electoral victory. Intelligence Online has seen a copy of "Reforming the Intelligence Services: [...]
FRANCEMAURITANIA 01/12/2010 Sahel hostage conundrum Paris is struggling to fathom the internal functioning of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), to facilitate the release of the five Areva workers taken hostage in Niger. [...]
FRANCE 22/09/2010 Munitions: the limits of a law France waited until the last minute to ratify the international treaty for the elimination of cluster munitions. The ad hoc [...]
CHINAFRANCE 10/02/2010 Beijing’s afraid for Georges Freche The Chinese embassy in Paris is worrying that left-wing heavyweight Georges Freche may lose his seat as president of the Laguedoc-Roussillon region. [...]
FRANCE 10/02/2010 Committee audits intelligence services France’s parliamentary committee into the intelligence services has been in operation for two years. A report into its activities provides a first assessment of its work. [...]
FRANCE 27/01/2010 Zaleski’s private investigations into the Duvals Businessman Romain Zaleski has spent a long time preparing his legal and media offensive against the Duval family, the biggest shareholder in Eramet. The case comes to court in Paris January 28. [...]
GEORGIA 18/03/2009 European Lobby for Georgia The Georgian government of prime minister Nika Gilauri has picked Euro RSCG Corporate & Omnium headed by Bernard SANANÈS to [...]
FRANCE 19/11/2008 Business Intelligence Unit for Capital A business intelligence plan for the Paris region has just seen the light of day. Operations are to be supervised by a specialized regional unit. [...]
SERBIA 05/11/2008 Gazprom Wins Gas Stake for a Song Russia’s Gazprom has just paid EUR 400 million for a 51% stake in NIS, Serbia’s national gas company. [...]
FRANCE 10/09/2008 Seguin Sulks The president of France's Audits Court, Philippe Séguin, has been [...]
SERBIA 23/07/2008 Tadic Takes Agencies in Hand Serbian president Boris Tacid has named an official he trusts as boss of Serbia’s domestic intelligence agency. Tadic already controlled defence intelligence agencies whose security service has just arrested Radovan Karadzic, former Serbian chieftan in Bo [...]
