The European Commission has begun setting up a new intelligence body under president Ursula von der Leyen, in an attempt to improve the use of information gathered by national spy agencies.
The unit, to be formed inside the commission’s secretariat-general, plans to hire officials from across the EU’s intelligence community and collate intelligence for joint purposes, said four people briefed on the plans.
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and US President Donald Trump’s warnings of reducing American security support to Europe have spurred the EU to rethink its homegrown security capabilities and begin its biggest rearmament drive since the cold war.
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