Gijs de Vries

In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.

You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.

If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into account. That will be our ambition for the UK Presidency.