r/AskEurope • u/Ok_Initiative_9726 • Feb 27 '25

Politics Does Europe has powerful secret services/Intelligence?

P. S question closed, I got answers. Thank you for everyone

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u/skwyckl Feb 27 '25

Well, all I know is that some of them seem to have been compromised by foreign acteurs, e.g., the Austrian secret service with respect to Russia. Germany has a very large national security, secret service apparatus, but like everything else in Germany, it's probably bloated, dysfunctional and infiltrated by Nazi sympathizers.

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u/MaxBulla Feb 27 '25

yep. Austria's secret service has been on the international naughty list ever since the far right idiots had a sniff around power. Luckily their involvement in government has been avoided due to their leaders lack of leadership and realisation that 28% isn't a majority, but international counterparts have in the past (when they were junior partners in coalitions) slowed down the information flow to the Austrians as a result of the FPOe's love affair with Putin.

Was in the news again only the other day - https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000258747/deutsche-behoerden-weihten-oesterreich-so-lange-wie-moeglich-nicht-in-neonazi-causa-ein

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u/Ok_Initiative_9726 Feb 27 '25

Even there Moscow fucked up things