China suspected of creating spy-tower in EU district

Chinese spies were suspected by Belgian intelligence to have installed surveillance equipment in a building in Brussels which now houses Malta’s EU embassy and which overlooks the European Commission HQ, Le Monde reports

, citing classified Belgian files. A Chinese firm renovated the building and the then head of Belgium’s intelligence service, the VSSE, Alain Winants, wrote to Belgium’s then foreign minister to warn him, Le Monde said.