The European External Action Service (EEAS) has announced that on Thursday 28 September, the European Union launched an exercise for the first time to test its crisis response tools and mechanisms to counter cyber and hybrid threats.
This "parallel and coordinated" exercise – PACE17 – lays out a scenario of a hybrid threat affecting the EU and its member states, and tests (until 4 October) their reactivity to such security challenges, the EEAS says in its press release. "The...