ABSTRACT
The geo-politics of the European Union with its internal borders open to the movement of goods, services and people has resulted in the redundancy of many organizations of state that have traditionally handled national economic, defence and security functions. Customs and excise functions between states in the EU are no longer the same as before given the free movement of goods and services. Similarly, Inland Revenue and taxation services have evolved with the free movement of people, transnational mergers, and acquisitions, and EU-wide companies. Furthermore there are no longer territorial borders to defend within Europe on a state-to-state basis but rather communities and individuals to secure. The nature of threats that face sovereign states, societies and individuals requires the gathering and analysis of information that is not constrained by time or space, nor by territorial borders or by organizational fiefdoms. This has resulted in state and sub-state entities, like the police, needing to acquire intelligence capabilities that are increasingly transnational.
