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Europe must boost its efforts to tackle long-term cybersecurity risks, and update the assessment framework

July 2, 2018

Guest blog post by Austeja Trinkunaite, Secretary General The Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPIS) According to our recent study, 38 % of the analysed European National Cybersecurity Strategies (NCSS) fail to represent a holistic and political-strategic approach to cybersecurity. Many EU member states focus almost exclusively on short-term, operational aspects, and neglect the… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, digital, InfoSociety, Security

#Factoftheday 18/04/2018 – The European Commission presents new measures to strengthen the Security Union

April 19, 2018

Yesterday 17thApril 2018, the European Commission presented a set of new security measures to address the loopholes in the European security legislation and therefore, as stated by First Vice-President Frans Timmermans, “to deprive criminals and terrorists of the tools and resources they need to perpetrate their crimes”. These proposals follow the anti-terrorism package of October… » read more

  Posted by EU-Logos

blogactiv, Security

MEP Alfred Sant: We need hard power as an EU competence

December 12, 2017

Guest post by MEP Alfred Sant, Head of Maltese (S&D) Delegation in the European Parliament   This afternoon the European Parliament’s plenary session, once again, will host a joint debate on the European Foreign Security and Defence Policy. This time the High Representative and Commission Vice President Mogherini will participate in the debate by welcoming… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, EU borders, Global Europe, Security

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Munich Security Conference 2017: Uncertainty over a « post-Truth, post-West, post-Order » World

March 7, 2017

The Munich Security Conference (MSC) is a three days long global platform where the elite gathers to discuss security threats and the future of security policies. No less than Angela Merkel, Mike Pence, António Guterres, Federica Mogherini, several European leaders, and about 47 foreign ministers, 30 defence ministers and 90 parliamentarians attended. This 53rd edition… » read more

  Posted by EU-Logos

blogactiv, Security

#FactOfTheDay: The future of EU-U.S. relations – Did Pence bring the wind of change?

February 23, 2017

Today the American Vice-President Mike Pence was in Brussels for holding talks with EU officials. His visit follows contrastive and confusional signals coming from USA since the election of Trump as a president. The new approach to foreign policy, introduced by Trump provoked anxiety, uncertainty, concern and anger in Europe. After statements on NATO as… » read more

  Posted by EU-Logos

blogactiv, Foreign Affairs, Security

Walk 500m to avoid STIB’s security checks – that’s not security, that’s a joke

March 25, 2016

I’m in Brussels today (Thursday 24.3.2016), two days after the Brussels attacks at Zaventem and Maelbeek. STIB, the Brussels public transport network (operator of buses, trams and metro) is operating a limited service today for security reasons. A screenshot explaining the situation is here. Brussels however has one peculiarity – the so-called Prémetro. These lines… » read more

  Posted by Jon Worth Euroblog

blogactiv, EU Politics, Security

Why securing Europe’s railways against terrorism shouldn’t be attempted

November 25, 2015

So apparently this morning Ségolène Royal, Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, has announced that security gates will be built to access Thalys trains: Trains: @RoyalSegolene annonce sur @FranceInter que des portiques pour le #Thalys seront installés à Lille et Paris avant le 20 décembre. — Julien Migaud-Muller (@jul_mm) November 24, 2015 De Telegraaf… » read more

  Posted by Jon Worth Euroblog

blogactiv, EU Politics, Security, Ségolène Royal, terrorism, Transport

Parked scooter leads to Berlaymont barricade

September 8, 2015

A driver sparked a security alert today (8 September), after leaving a scooter parked near the front of the European Commission’s Berlaymont building. Heard in Europe sources said Commission security, fearing a potential bomb attack, called the cops after spotting the parked-up scooter, which appeared to have sailed serenely past the guards. Belgian police cordoned… » read more

Berlaymont, scooter, Security, terrorism

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EU: Dark Clouds on Eurozone Sky

August 17, 2015

In Wolfgang Schaeuble’s Germano-centric EU, no institution is more important – apart from his Politburo-like Eurogroup and the Office of the Chancellor – than his Ministry’s Council of Economic Advisers. The most influential adviser among them is Professor Hans-Werner Sinn from Munich, a Christian missionary-manqué turned tele-economist. Like any good German, Professor Sinn has but… » read more

  Posted by Spotlight on Geopolitics

blogactiv, Economy & Euro, English, EU Priorities and Opinion, Security

EU: Dark Clouds on Eurozone Sky

August 3, 2015

In Wolfgang Schaeuble’s Germano-centric EU, no institution is more important – apart from his Politburo-like Eurogroup and the Office of the Chancellor – than his Ministry’s Council of Economic Advisers. The most influential adviser among them is Professor Hans-Werner Sinn from Munich, a Christian missionary-manqué turned tele-economist. Like any good German, Professor Sinn has but a few… » read more

E.U., Economy & Euro, English, EU Priorities and Opinion, Security

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EU: Undoing Germany’s “Reluctant” Hegemony

July 30, 2015

To those in the know, the Italian peninsula was not only the cradle of the Roman Empire or Rome the centre of the Catholic faithful, but also the birthplace of capitalism and of countless statecraft innovations and institutions still widely used around the world today. During the middle ages, the Italian city-states thus discovered and… » read more

  Posted by Spotlight on Geopolitics

blogactiv, Economy & Euro, English, EU Priorities and Opinion, Security

EU: Undoing Germany’s “Reluctant” Hegemony

To those in the know, the Italian peninsula was not only the cradle of the Roman Empire or Rome the centre of the Catholic faithful, but also the birthplace of capitalism and of countless statecraft innovations and institutions still widely used around the world today. During the middle ages, the Italian city-states thus discovered and… » read more

E.U., Economy & Euro, English, EU Priorities and Opinion, External Relations, france, Security

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“State of the Union 2015 – Europa Media in Florence, Italy”

May 14, 2015

From 6th to 9th May, the annual State of the Union conference took place in Florence, Italy. I decided to check the event, in order to listen to some of Europe’s leading experts on security and ICT, and European policy makers, as well as to enjoy my beloved hometown for a few days. The core… » read more

EU Priorities 2020, EU project, EU projects, Europa Media News, Florence, Horizon 2020, italy, networking, privacy, project partner, project partners, proposal, Research, Security, Technology, terrorism, Wilileaks

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