The European Commission will propose binding EU legislation before the end of the year to help member states plug huge gaps in their cyber-security defences.
Speaking at a cyber-security debate organised by the Security & Defence Agenda in Brussels on Thursday (10 May), the commission said ill-equipped member states are totally unprepared for future cyber threats.
"The level of preparedness across the EU is not high-enough," said Antoaneta Angelova-Krasteva, a commission informat...
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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.