Media release

Conference on cyber defence in Europe to take place in Berlin

Photo: EU2015.LV
23 March 2015

On 25-26 March, the Latvian Ministry of Defence and the German Federal Ministry of Defence will organise the conference on “Cyber Defence in Europe” in Berlin.

Cyber defence issues will be discussed in four panels – Implications of the EU`s Cyber Defence Policy Framework; the EU`s Mutual Defence and Solidarity Clause in the Cyber Security Context; Cyber Defence in EU Military Operations; and Civil-Military Cooperation in Cyber Defence.

The event will be opened by Dr Katrin Suder, State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Defence, and the keynote address will be given by Jānis Sārts, State Secretary at the Latvian Ministry of Defence.

The Latvian Ministry of Defence plans to present conclusions and proposals from the conference to the EU Member States and institutions in order to further enhance cyber defence in Europe. It is expected that the conclusions will make a valuable contribution to the debates on this relatively new topic within the EU.

The conference will bring together a broad audience of more than one hundred policy-makers, senior officials and experts from 19 EU Member States and from institutions such as the European External Action Service, the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security, the European Defence Agency and EU Council Working Groups, as well as representatives from industry, academia and the non-governmental sector. The conference will be held under the Chatham House Rule.

With cyber defence issues playing an ever greater role on today’s security agenda, the Latvian Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the first half of 2015 has made 'Digital Europe' one of its three policy priorities. Cyber security and defence form an inherent part of this priority.

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