Defence`s Feeds

With Gulf states racing to form partnerships with US tech groups to supercharge their ambitions in artificial intelligence (AI), Qatar appears to be banking on knowing the right people as much as having the financial firepower. According to Intelligence Online sources, among [...]

To gain a better understanding of the emerging world of "predatory empires", France's DRM military intelligence is planning to implement [...]

The parqueted lobby of Arundel House, home to the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), has been welcoming more well-heeled [...]

According to Xi Jinping, the idea of a diplomat being restricted to bilateral negotiations and multilateral summits is now outdated [...]

The trials are coming thick and fast for Jean-Charles Brisard, 57, a consultant who has presented himself as an international terrorism [...]

Teams from France's DNRT territorial police intelligence unit (formerly Renseignements Généraux) have been stepping up their contacts with companies in [...]

The dismantling of the Foreign Malign Influence Centre (FMIC) is one of the measures laid out in a sweeping bill aimed at drastically reducing the capabilities of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) proposed by Republican chairman [...]

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim was on 14 May received with great fanfare at the Kremlin by President Vladimir Putin. [...]

Among those present at this year's Kiel Munition Clearance Week 2025 trade fair, held from 18 to 20 June in [...]

French trade minister Laurent Saint-Martin's teams had planned to travel to Iraq in mid-July, they told Intelligence Online, but the [...]

The wish of Alex Berger, long-time producer of French spy [...]

An unusual lobbying scheme by Argentina's State Intelligence Secretariat (SIDE) is being helped along by corporate intelligence firm Forward Global, [...]

After working for Siam Aero Repair, a Thai company that supplies aviation spare parts, from December 2023 to January 2025, Michael Gofshteyn started work as an asset manager at Sky Kingdom at the beginning of this year. This young professional [...]

Beijing's never-ending battle against corruption is going global. The aim is to ensure that Chinese Communist Party (CCP) party relays [...]

Named minister of state (head of government) by Prince Albert II of Monaco on 4 June, French state councillor Philippe [...]

Paris - Short stint for Forward Global's cyber directorFrédéric Polycarpe joined the corporate intelligence group Forward Global (IO, 09/09/24) last [...]

On 18 June, at the end of a night operation in the foothills of Durango in northern Mexico, a detachment [...]

The next meeting of the Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE) is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, 16 July 2025 from 10.15-12.30 and 14.30-18.30 and Thursday, 17 July 2025 from 9.00-12.30 in Brussels (room ANTALL 4Q1).

Further information about the SEDE meeting can be found here.

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SEDE missions 2025:

• Norway - 27 - 30 May 2025
• Moldova and Ukraine - 14-17 April 2025
  
• Bosnia and Herzegovina - 24-27 February 2025
• Israel and Palestine - 5-8 February 2025

SEDE missions 2024:

• United Kingdom - 28-30 October 2024
• Ukraine - 25-26 October 2024

SEDE Committee meetings' calendar 2025
EP calendar 2025
SEDE meetings' calendar 2nd half of 2024 - 10th legislature
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AMENDMENTS 31 - 128 - Draft opinion Amending Regulations (EU) 2021/694, (EU) 2021/695, (EU) 2021/697, (EU) 2021/1153, (EU) 2023/1525 and 2024/795, as regards incentivising defence-related investments in the EU budget to implement the ReArm Europe Plan
Committee on Security and Defence
Thijs Reuten

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The fate of France's Chief of Defence Staff (CEMA), Thierry Burkhard, remains uncertain. According to several Intelligence Online sources, Burkhard, [...]