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Critical infrastructure security, European Commission wants to better coordinate Member States’ actions to protect themselves from attacks

Brussels, 18/10/2022 (Agence Europe)

The Commission proposed on Tuesday 18 October, in an EU Council recommendation, to strengthen the resilience of the EU’s critical infrastructure, following up on announcements made on 5 October by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

The proposal for a recommendation comes a few weeks after the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines and while the “war in Ukraine has brought new risks, physical attacks and cyber attacks, often combined as a hybrid threat”, the Commission...