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Nigeria: Challenging stereotypes as a mother with spinal muscular atrophy

BBC Africa - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 08:33
Agaezichi Joy is challenging stereotypes as a mother with spinal muscular atrophy.
Categories: Africa

The EU needs to allow companies to detect online child abuse

Euractiv.com - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 08:33
As tough inter-institutional negotiations continue in Brussels, Maud de Boer Buquicchio says that the EU must continue to allow companies to detect and report child sexual abuse online - both known and new images - as well as instances of grooming.
Categories: European Union

Wegen «Luxuskunst-Wettbewerb»: SVP-Sturm gegen Kunst am Bundeshaus-Dreieck

Blick.ch - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 08:32
Eine halbe Million Franken will die Verwaltungsdelegation des Parlaments ausgeben, um das dreieckige Giebelfeld am Bundeshaus zu verschönern. Und das mitten in der Corona-Krise. Dagegen wehrt sich nun die SVP.
Categories: Swiss News

BLICK rechnet vor: Luxushotel günstiger als eigene Ferienwohnung

Blick.ch - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 08:32
Die meisten Leute fahren besser, wenn sie Ferien im Hotel machen. Denn die eigenen vier Wände im Alpenraum belasten das Budget massiv – und bringen weniger Mieteinnahmen als erwartet.
Categories: Swiss News

Few signs that EU health passports can be ready before July

Euractiv.com - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 08:31
In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about the Croatian president urging parliament to decide on his Supreme Court president pick, Romanian authorities to discuss a nationwide lockdown, and so much more.
Categories: European Union

Polen kritisiert Repression gegen Minderheit in Belarus

Euractiv.de - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 08:30
Der polnische Ministerpräsident Mateusz Morawiecki hat die belarussischen Behörden aufgefordert, ihre "Schikanen" gegen die im Land lebende polnische Minderheit einzustellen. 
Categories: Europäische Union

What is the EU doing to combat cybercrime?

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Citizens turn to the European Parliament to ask what the EU is doing to combat cybercrime. Over recent years, cybercrime has been a growing threat to the EU: it is estimated to have increased fivefold from 2013 to 2017. The most prominent types of cybercrime are attacks against information technology (IT) systems, online fraud (including phishing and identity theft), and illegal online content (including incitement to terrorism and child sexual abuse). With an increasing reliance on the internet due to the measures taken against the coronavirus, specific crimes targeting citizens’ fears about the pandemic have also increased. However, cyber-attacks are not exclusively conducted with a criminal intent. Increasingly, they have played a role in what is known as hybrid warfare, taking the shape of disinformation attacks to influence democratic processes. As borders do not limit cybercrime, it is essential for the European Union to develop a common approach in order to complement the national capabilities of EU countries that primarily address these issues.

Cybersecurity bodies

To achieve this, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) was established in 2004. It cooperates with EU countries and institutions and helps to make the EU more resilient against cyber-attacks, in particular by contributing to cyber policy, operational cooperation and capacity building. Current key topics include fostering cloud computing security, ensuring the robustness of critical infrastructure against attacks as well as providing resources regarding the cybersecurity issues brought on by the coronavirus.

Additionally, the European Union’s law enforcement agency Europol established the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) in 2013, to ‘help protect European citizens, businesses and governments from online crime’. It has since been involved in high-profile operations as well as on-the-spot operational support, and also made cybercrime one of its priority areas from 2018‑2021.

European Parliament actions

Given this increase in the frequency of cybercrime and the growing digital connectedness of the EU, a 2019 Regulation on cybersecurity (replacing the 2013 Cybersecurity Act) aims at ensuring the proper functioning of the internal market and a high level of cybersecurity, cyber resilience and trust within the Union. In the course of adopting the regulation, the European Parliament highlighted the importance of a common response to cyber-attacks, helped by expertise provided through the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity. This is also meant to facilitate operational cooperation between EU countries.

The European Parliament had previously adopted a resolution on the fight against cybercrime in October 2017, where it underlined that fighting cybercrime should be first and foremost about safeguarding and hardening critical infrastructures and other networked devices and not only pursuing repressive measures.

EU cybersecurity strategy 

In December 2020, the Commission presented a new cybersecurity strategy. The strategy aims to bolster Europe’s collective resilience against cyber threats. Specifically, the Commission put forward legislative proposals on the security of network and information systems and on the protection of critical infrastructure. Both proposals aim to address both cyber and physical resilience of critical entities and networks: the European Parliament and EU countries are working on these proposals.

Other measures taken by the EU

In May 2019, the EU countries established a sanctions framework for cyber-attacks originating outside the EU, which enables them to place sanctions on perpetrators of cybercrime and can act as a deterrent by increasing the consequences of conducting a cyber-attack against EU countries or international organisations.

Further information

Keep sending your questions to the Citizens’ Enquiries Unit (Ask EP)! We reply in the EU language that you use to write to us.

Categories: European Union

Sondage : les Français de plus en plus favorables aux mesures de lutte contre la discrimination

Euractiv.fr - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 08:29
À l'occasion de la Journée internationale pour l'élimination de la discrimination raciale, qui a eu lieu dimanche (21 mars), quel bilan peut-on faire en France ?
Categories: Union européenne

CAN 2022 : Burkina Faso et Guinée qualifiés, Algérie pour enchaîner

Afrik.com - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 08:28

Le Burkina Faso et la Guinée rejoignent les pays qualifiés pour la phase finale de la Coupe d’Afrique des Nations 2022, notamment le Cameroun (pays hôte), le Mali, le Sénégal, la Tunisie et l’Algérie. La 5ème de ces éliminatoires se poursuivra ce jeudi, avec les Algériens qui se déplacent à Lusaka pour aller en découdre […]

L’article CAN 2022 : Burkina Faso et Guinée qualifiés, Algérie pour enchaîner est apparu en premier sur Afrik.com.

Categories: Afrique

Sur les vaccins, l’Europe « est un peu un diesel », reconnaît Macron à la TV grecque

Euractiv.fr - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 08:24
Sur la campagne de vaccination contre la Covid-19, l’Europe « est un peu un diesel » qui « démarre lentement » mais « va loin », a estimé le président français Emmanuel Macron dans un entretien avec Nikos Aliagas diffusé mercredi par une télévision grecque.
Categories: Union européenne

Le Premier ministre kosovar présente ses « quatre principes » dans le dialogue avec la Serbie

Euractiv.fr - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 08:23
« Le Kosovo a été davantage un sujet du dialogue qu’une partie au dialogue, et cela doit changer », a souligné le Premier ministre.
Categories: Union européenne

Neue Daten veröffentlicht: Astrazeneca zu 76 Prozent wirksam

Blick.ch - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 08:23
Der Astrazeneca-Impfstoff soll zu 76 Prozent wirksam sein, wie das Unternehmen mitteilt. Bereits Anfang Woche hatte Astrazeneca Daten zur Wirksamkeit veröffentlicht. Diese waren allerdings nicht aktuell. Das sind nun die Ergebnisse.
Categories: Swiss News

Tesla d’Elon Musk accepte le Bitcoin pour payer les voitures

Afrik.com - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 08:21

Le PDG de Tesla, Elon Musk, a annoncé qu’il est désormais possible d’acheter des véhicules Tesla aux États-Unis avec le Bitcoin. L’annonce intervient moins d’un mois après que le constructeur automobile a révélé qu’il avait acheté pour 1,5 milliard de dollars (plus de 830,2 milliards FCFA) de bitcoins et qu’il commencerait bientôt à accepter la […]

L’article Tesla d’Elon Musk accepte le Bitcoin pour payer les voitures est apparu en premier sur Afrik.com.

Categories: Afrique

Belarus takes ethnic Poles ‘hostage’, Polish PM says

Euractiv.com - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 08:20
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has called on Belarusian authorities to stop harassing Poles living in the country after a minority activist was sentenced to 15 days in jail earlier this week. The issue will be raised at today's EU summit, the Polish PM said.
Categories: European Union

Macron, Orban urge EU to ‘actively support’ nuclear power

Euractiv.com - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 08:19
A group of seven European leaders fronted by French President Emmanuel Macron has called on the European Commission to stop hindering nuclear power and consider ways of bringing atomic energy into the EU’s green finance rule book ahead of an EU summit on Thursday (25 March).
Categories: European Union

Offshore oil exploration in Montenegro begins

Euractiv.com - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 08:18
The Italian and Russian Eni-Novatek consortium will start exploratory drilling for oil off the Montenegrin coast on Thursday, the country’s ministry of capital investments has told CdM. The Topaz Driller drilling rig arrived onsite in Montenegro in mid-March. The government...
Categories: European Union

Serbia marks 22 years since NATO bombing campaign against FR Yugoslavia

Euractiv.com - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 08:17
Serbia marked on Wednesday 22 years since NATO’s 11-week-long bombing campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, in which, according to unofficial sources, around 2,500 civilians and 1,000 soldiers and police were killed. The NATO campaign came in the wake...
Categories: European Union

Attitude towards media main stumbling block for Slovenia’s governing coalition

Euractiv.com - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 08:17
Slovenian opposition groups LMŠ, SD, Left and SAB submitted a motion in parliament, calling for the questioning of Culture Minister Vasko Simoniti, criticising him for his inaction during the pandemic, his attitude towards the media, as well as the general...
Categories: European Union

Croatian president urges MPs to state position on Supreme Court president pick

Euractiv.com - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 08:16
President Zoran Milanović sent a letter to MPs on Wednesday, calling on the parliament to fulfil its constitutional obligation and state its position on his proposal that law professor Zlata Đurđević be elected Supreme Court president. In his letter, Milanović...
Categories: European Union

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