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Fiscal intelligence unit to start 2025, CICIR welcome in Berlin, Dating app for French officers, NZ archives and Chinese interference

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Andrew Hampton
China Institute of Contemporary International Relations
CNCTR
DGSE
Direction Général des Finances Publiques
DNEF
DNRED
European School of Management and Technology
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Gabriel Attal
Grégory Belhoste
Guoanbu
National Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigations
New Zealand Security Intelligence Service
Olaf Scholz
SPD
Tracfin
Vladislav Andreyev

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French intelligence taking close look at ACC gigafactory's Chinese suppliers

Clouds are gathering over ACC, which is meant to be the European champion of EV batteries, having built its first gigafactory in France. French domestic intelligence is looking into the factory's Chinese suppliers, while the company is also experiencing difficulties in Italy and Germany.

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The electric car battery production line at ACC's gigafactory during its inauguration in Billy-Berclau/Douvrin, northern France, on 30 May 2023.

China, France
Paris refuses visa for Chinese researcher with ties to Ministry of State Security

Hu Shisheng, director of the Institute of South Asian Studies at the Chinese Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, was unable to attend a recent seminar on Tibet in Paris after his visa application was rejected at the last minute.

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Germany, Poland
Berlin and Warsaw roll out own intelligence data fusion tools for drones

Poland's WB Group and Germany's Quantum Systems are deploying their AI algorithms for fusing intelligence data for drones in Ukraine, rekindling computer vision technology competition between European manufacturers.

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Screenshots of the CVAT military vehicle annotation software used to train an automatic vehicle detection algorithm.

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Could a leftist civil servant with an intelligence background become France's next PM?

France's leftist coalition has picked Lucie Castets as its candidate to become PM. Yet it is unprecedented for a senior civil servant with an intelligence background to receive such a nomination. We look back over her career within French financial intelligence unit Tracfin.

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Lucie Castets, the candidate put forward by the Nouveau Front Populaire to be French PM, 24 July 2024.

France
Paris Olympic Games hamper progress of finance ministry's tax intelligence unit

Obstacles are piling up for the National Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigation's tax intelligence unit. Investigations into the clearance of its agents have been delayed by the Paris Games, while the intelligence-gathering techniques watchdog appears altogether sceptical.

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Thomas Cazenave, French minister delegate for public accounts, at the National Assembly on 3 June 2024.

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China Institute of Contemporary International Relations
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DNEF
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Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Gabriel Attal
Grégory Belhoste
Guoanbu
National Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigations
New Zealand Security Intelligence Service
Olaf Scholz
SPD
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Information wars in the Caucasus

North Korea, Russia
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China, Europe, India, Russia, Saudi Arabia, UAE, United States
The geopolitical power plays in Earth observation

Ukraine
Jamming wars

China, Europe
Chinese influence and interference in Western Europe

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Security, propaganda and the PLA: Xi Jinping forges new networks of influence

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Barzan Holdings, Qatar's defence industry giant springing up out of the desert

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Fiscal intelligence unit to start 2025, CICIR welcome in Berlin, Dating app for French officers, NZ archives and Chinese interference

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