We should 100% be doing this. A strong intelligence service is still 100% compatible with peaceful neutrality, so pacifism is not an excuse for not doing this.
A smart move by MEP Nacho Sánchez Amor (S&D, ES), to discuss these ‘means and methods’ in public.
(I’m sure that the Russians aren’t reading *euractiv.com*, or pay any attention to whatever ‘Brussels’ is discussing.)
Intelligence gathering only serves if it’s used to inform something, i.e. a foreign or military policy.
With the 27 (28 if you count the EU’s own) foreign policies and 27 military policies currently going on, you can be certain a new intelligence gathering capability will only serve to step on each other’s toes, especially if it does HUMINT.
It could do SIGINT or IMINT though, creating a pool of means gathering intel shared between the 27.
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That’s certainly good.
We should 100% be doing this. A strong intelligence service is still 100% compatible with peaceful neutrality, so pacifism is not an excuse for not doing this.
A smart move by MEP Nacho Sánchez Amor (S&D, ES), to discuss these ‘means and methods’ in public.
(I’m sure that the Russians aren’t reading *euractiv.com*, or pay any attention to whatever ‘Brussels’ is discussing.)
Intelligence gathering only serves if it’s used to inform something, i.e. a foreign or military policy.
With the 27 (28 if you count the EU’s own) foreign policies and 27 military policies currently going on, you can be certain a new intelligence gathering capability will only serve to step on each other’s toes, especially if it does HUMINT.
It could do SIGINT or IMINT though, creating a pool of means gathering intel shared between the 27.