BRUSSELS – Priorities are crystallising within the work group of the EU’s Network and Information Security (NIS) platform that is charged with identifying future research goals. A number of its preliminary recommendations will be firmed up by...
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BRUSSELS – The European Commission’s new plan to further mitigate risks from chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive (CBRN-E) threats proffers examples of concrete progress in detection capabilities. But the effort is slow-moving and dogged by two worrisome gaps, namely:...
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BRUSSELS – How EU-funded security research teams carry out societal impact assessments (SIA) of their intended work will be an important part of a successful proposal’s evaluation under Horizon 2020. But researchers plead for two things from the EU: no new layers of bureaucracy for research teams and, above all,...
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BRUSSELS – New prevention and detection measures have stopped hundreds of would-be jihadists from travelling from Europe to join the war in Syria. But with thousands already there, the EU’s Counter-Terrorism Coordinator Gilles de Kerchove says “we cannot exclude” that some are being trained and instructed to...
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BRUSSELS – Albania is meeting the EU’s rule-of-law requirements and its accession to the bloc should take place sooner rather than later, say analysts. Their recommendation comes as the European Commission (EC) prepares to...
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BRUSSELS – “You don’t necessarily need tanks and jets to violate a sovereign nation,” Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird told the 28 April “Freedom Online Coalition” conference in Tallinn, Estonia. But he and other Coalition participants also said the Russian state’s massive digital propaganda levelled against the Ukrainian government does not augur well for...
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Euro-View: Melissa E. Hathaway on NATO’s cyber resilience Is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) completely prepared and in fit condition for immediate use of its capabilities to defend from malicious cyber activities? The short answer is: probably not. That is, not without a partnership with industry that allows NATO to harness the innovations and technologies of its members’ industrial …
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EU Security Research Projects Awarded (15/05/2014)
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Update on tenders and calls-for-proposals in EU security (15/05/2014)
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Upcoming European security conferences & exhibits (15/05/2014)
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