What is officially described as a "small unit" has the possible to profoundly transform relations between the EU institutions. The European Commission is preparing a concept of an intelligence structure embedded in the Commission's Secretariat-General and reporting straight to Ursula von der Leyen, according to the material referring to the Financial Times and further on the defence News, Brussels Signal and Defcros News. According to these reports, the fresh unit has not yet been formally presented to 27 associate States, but there is already intensive conceptual work within the Commission on the scope of the tasks, staff recruitment and relations with existing EU bodies.
