News you may have missed #522 (European Union edition)

• Did Tunisian dictator have vast spy network in France? News website Mediapart reports that ousted Tunisian dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali put in place a complex intelligence network to spy on Tunisian residents in France.
• ‘At least 15 countries’ spying on Sweden. A report by Swedish intelligence service SAPO states that over fifteen countries are systematically conducting intelligence operations against Sweden, in Sweden or against Swedish interests overseas. Did someone say USA?
• Poland’s president didn’t know about CIA prisons. The CIA detained terrorist suspects in Poland without the knowledge of the then president Aleksander Kwasniewski, high-ranking political sources have told a leading Polish newspaper.