Overview
- The proposed unit would sit in the Commission’s General Secretariat and send assessments directly to President Ursula von der Leyen.
- Officials say the service would rely on specialists seconded from national agencies, with no Commission field agents and likely only a small expert team.
- A Commission spokesperson described the project as at a very early stage, with no formal proposal to the 27 member states and no timeline set.
- Representatives of member states and EU intelligence leaders have raised concerns about duplication with the existing Single Intelligence Analysis Capacity, which includes INTCEN and the military’s EUMS INT.
- Backers frame the effort as strengthening European autonomy after the Ukraine war exposed reliance on U.S. support, including a temporary pause in U.S. intelligence aid to Kyiv and cautionary signals from Washington.