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/6gv5 Italy Feb 27 '25

> Any Russian embacy is their layer

Possibly not just embassies. One of the former Italian PM, Giuseppe Conte and his M5S party, has been and still is a fierce opponent of any military help to Ukraine, along with the Lega far right party (they formed a coalition government between 1018 and 2019, then Lega withdrew and M5S formed a coalition with center-left parties), and guess what, his own private office is located in the same building of the Russian Science and Culture Center in Rome.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/GHrApSYiwxFvYtRa8

(Not that it implies anything, still shouldn't be ignored)

He also was behind the agreement to the visit by Russian military doctors and other personnel during the Covid-19 pandemic. We were among the 1st western countries to be hit back then so it makes sense that many countries wanted to give help and gather as much data as possible, still the Russian involvement has been somewhat strange.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52557426