ELEMENTS OF INTEREST:

• In group project:

• Hawthorne effect -> How do individuals or nations act when they suspect they’re being monitored?

• Surveillance -> How do intelligence agencies alter their own practices when they’re being scrutinised?

• Brussels & the context of the European Commission:

• Brussels is one of the biggest spy hubs with hundreds of intelligence officers who target the European Commission’s institutions.

ESPIONAGE: the unauthorised collection of information not made publicly available.

COVERT ACTION: acting on information in pursuit of national interests

INFORMATION<INTELLIGENCE: classification by the acting state, depending on how important it is