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Europe faces some 4,000 cyberattacks a day, Juncker said. (Photo: Yuri Samoilov)

EU to beef up cybersecurity agency

A European Commission official confirmed to EUobserver that Jean-Claude Juncker's proposal to set up a European Cybersecurity Agency is in fact about increasing the mandate of an already existing agency.

The Commission president proposed to set up a European Cybersecurity Agency on Wednesday (13 September), without mentioning that the EU already has an agency dealing with that subject.

In his annual State of the European Union speech, Juncker noted that Europe faced 4,000 ransomwa...

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