Uniunea Europeană – către un serviciu de informaţii european?
The European Union - towards an European Intelligence Service?

Summary/Abstract: Intelligence and security services, as main institutions that ensure strategic knowledge for decision makers, can capitalise on the cooperation with, the experience and expertise of the international partners in order to improve and enhance their analytical capacity, early warning and foresight. European and Euro-Atlantic organisations provide a multilateral framework for dialogue, consultations and cooperation on security issues, and their potential can be developed by extended information sharing, based on the comprarative advantages of each organisation. The European Union is such an organisation, that developed in time intelligence dedicated structures to back up EU decision making, especially in crisis situations. If there is consensus on the necessity to cooperate on intelligence issues, shaping a common intelligence policy, with its subsequent tools, is still contentious, and the perspective of implementing such an initiative remains remote

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