Prime Minister Shmyhal blocked Nayyem’s participation at the Berlin conference because Nayyem was scheduled to present a report in Kyiv on his agency’s progress on reconstruction on June 12, according to an official with knowledge of the matter, granted anonymity to discuss nonpublic matters. Rebuilding Ukraine The total cost of rebuilding Ukraine over the next … Read more
NATO’s 32 members will gather on July 9-11 in Washington to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the alliance. The summit will focus mostly on building defense production and meeting defense budget targets in the face of threats from Russia. But aid to Ukraine will also be a priority, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy plans to … Read more
Taiwan has begun preparations for a series of homeland security drills aimed at fortifying the “operational resilience” of the island’s critical infrastructure amid persistent concerns over a cross-strait conflict. The drills, to be held later this year, will focus on 20 critical infrastructure sites, including government agencies, public utilities, transport hubs, hospitals, industrial complexes, and … Read more
The European Union can impose sanctions against hacking groups. In 2020 it imposed a second round of cyber sanctions on Fancy Bear for its attacks on the German Bundestag in 2015. The European Union’s top diplomat Josep Borrell in a statement “strongly condemn[ed] the malicious cyber campaign” by Fancy Bear against Germany and the Czech … Read more
The German defense ministry said that Denmark and the Netherlands are in discussions over financial support for IAAD. “Several other partners have also agreed to intensively examine whether they can also supply systems or provide resources,” the ministry added. While the German government has come under fire for refusing to donate Taurus cruise missiles to … Read more
The opposition had put forward the vote after a report in the To Vima newspaper alleged an audio file, which was leaked to the media in the hours following the head-on collision between the two trains, had been doctored to make it appear the accident was caused by human error rather than by Greece’s aging … Read more
The Chinese Communist Party is accelerating its capabilities to launch a large-scale cyber-attack against U.S. critical infrastructure in the next three years. We must do more planning, preparing, and practicing our response across industry and government. Rather than focus on discrete incidents that can be managed, we need a fundamentally new approach that handles threats … Read more
Democratic lawmakers are increasingly worried that former President Donald Trump will find a way to decimate the nation’s cyber defense agency if he wins a second term. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency — the main agency in charge of protecting critical infrastructure, like pipelines and hospitals, from hackers — found itself on Trump’s target list … Read more
Former Estonian Economy Minister Kadri Simson is the EU’s current energy commissioner but is unlikely to retain her role, as her Centre party is no longer in the country’s governing coalition — usually a requirement given the government picks whom it sends to Brussels. Síkela’s political affiliation is more complicated. He serves in the coalition … Read more
