Orbán cabinet worried about the EU’s cybersecurity
EU cybersecurity agency ENISA must help to strengthen EU institutions and member states, especially given current cybersecurity challenges, Zoltán Kovács, the state secretary for international relations and communications, said before a transport, telecommunications and energy council meeting in Brussels on Friday.
Kovács noted that ministers are assessing ENISA’s role in “the dramatically changing European cybersecurity ecosystem” in light of fresh legislative developments, adding that a new leglislative framework for ENISA would help to address numerous challenges.
Member states will relate their experiences and expectations to the European Commission during the meeting, he said.
Also, the conclusions on the European Commission’s White Paper on the development of the European digital infrastructure aiming to improve the bloc’s logistics, infrastructure and security will be presented at the meeting.
He said the European Commission should take seriously the experiences and practices of EU member states rather than proposing ideas that are hard to implement.
Kovács said that whereas digital infrastructure was a security consideration as important as the cybersecurity agency itself, it was also a key component of competitiveness, a Hungarian EU presidency priority, as “all such infrastructure ensures that industries and institutions can enhance their competitiveness”.
Regarding the Digital Decade 2030 policy programme, Kovács said that ministers were scheduled today to hold a “substantive political debate”, and ideas on boosting competitiveness, efficiency and the challenges set out in the Budapest Declaration would be important aspects of the discussions.
Ministers will have an informal lunch with the deputy secretary-general of UN agency International Telecommunication Union to discuss future cooperation and how to strengthen Europe’s place in international telecommunications developments, “an area where clearly Europe must move forward in terms of competitiveness.”
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