France
French intelligence's 2023 special funds budget blowout

The Agencies' Gazette
Paris Club's Madrid meet, fired NSA ace joins CFR, cut in French intel's 2026 budget, China's retrospective scrutiny turns to PLA

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

SpainEuropean spy chiefs hold Madrid get-together

United StatesSacked by NSA, artificial intelligence whiz bounces back at think tank

FranceSpecial funding for intelligence down for 2026 budget

ChinaAfter Rocket Force, retrospective checks for PLA

The Tech Telegraph
French defence intel cyber projects boosted, NN Technologies helps Nexumous, Cyber Ranges hooks up with SSSCIP

From SIGINT to GEOINT and OSINT with a dose of cyber, we report every Thursday on events big and small that matter in the technical intelligence community.

ParisFrench military intelligence service's cyber projects favoured in 2025 finance bill

LondonNN Technologies assists drone management newbie Nexumous

Kyiv/QuanticoCyber Ranges hooks up with SSSCIP's cyber threat intelligence-sharing system

France
French intelligence services' special funds will fall in 2025... unless needs must

The just-announced French budget is planning to reduce the allocation of special funds for intelligence by €4m, yet this is only a theoretical cut, since the government has a regular habit of then making additional payments each year.

France
French MPs slam special funds budget as miscalculated

There is a recurring theme in the French special funds verification committee's detailed 2021 report: those funds' budgets are systematically underestimated.

France
French intelligence services' spending surges before budget boost

The French government has earmarked more funding for intelligence over the next five years, but France's intelligence services, particularly the DGSE, have already exceeded their 2022 provisional budgets.