EU Cyber Direct

Supporting the EU’s cyber diplomacy and international digital engagements to strengthen rules-based order in cyberspace and enhance cyber resilience 🌐 🇪🇺

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🌍 Who gets to shape cyber implementation at the UN?

EU:CD Fellow Faiz Naeem examines how stakeholder accreditation, independent expertise and proposed restrictions on participation could affect two UN cyber processes.

🔗 Read the full article ➡️ https://t.co/umv6flWfU8

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🌍 How do external partnerships shape Africa’s engagement in global cyber diplomacy?

In a new blog article, EU:CD Fellow Nnenna Ifeanyi-Ajufo examines inter-regional cooperation and Africa’s role in the UN Global Mechanism on ICTs Security.

🔗 https://t.co/5HtFrY5N6X

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What does “active cyber defence” mean across the EU?

Our new study by Dr Andrea Calderaro and Marius Houwen maps all 27 Member States’ definitions, legal frameworks and approaches, and finds more common ground than the differences suggest.

🔗https://t.co/5E1YhHr2vT

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🌍 Africa’s cyber diplomacy is gaining momentum. But is dialogue translating into action?

EU:CD Fellow Emmanuella Darkwah explores Africa’s role in multilateral cyber processes, regional milestones, and the path from dialogue to implementation

🔗https://t.co/v0OlZnLy7t

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🇺🇦 In our latest blog article, EU:CD Fellow Olesya Danylchenko explores the evolution of the Tallinn Mechanism and how the private sector is increasingly contributing to Ukraine’s cyber resilience.

🔗 Read more: https://t.co/dEWe5AUKQ9

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🇺🇳 What could the new permanent UN Global Mechanism on ICT Security mean for the future of cyber diplomacy?

In our latest policy brief, Director @andreacalderaro explores five shifts that could shape its first cycle.

Read more ➡️ https://t.co/fGG25F3AQC

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🇺🇳 How can diplomatic and expert communities work together to support the UN Global Mechanism?

The Cyber Diplomacy Compass event report captures key insights from two days of dialogue in New York➡️https://t.co/uQdlw9jibP

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🇺🇳 Ahead of the first substantive plenary of the UN Global Mechanism, @EUCyberDirect convened the inaugural Cyber Diplomacy Compass in New York

🤝Bringing together UN delegates and experts to strengthen dialogue, cooperation, and shared understanding for the work ahead

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🇺🇳 The first substantive plenary session of the @UN Global Mechanism is approaching, and @EUCyberDirect will be present in N.Y. to contribute to the discussions!

🔗 Learn more about our engagements here: https://t.co/j4zQQaSYrp

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What does cognitive warfare mean for Europe’s cyber & hybrid defence?

In our latest blog article Jonathan Nelson explores how AI-enabled influence operations are expanding the risk perimeter and why Europe must detect cognitive operations earlier

🔗https://t.co/qhdhhdUhgd

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📣 Registration open!

During the final EU:CD Fellowship webinar on 17 June, we’ll explore how the protection of people in cyberspace depends on three interconnected pillars:

🔹 Recognition of harm
🔹 Accountability
🔹 Governance

Join us👉https://t.co/cuuGFXL1Y7

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Last week in Vienna, on the margins of the @OSCE Informal Working Group (IWG), @EUCyberDirect convened an interregional luncheon on “Confidence-building for critical infrastructure protection”.

🙏 We thank all participants for their engagement and valuable contributions.

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🔐 It takes a community to secure cyberspace

As part of the EU:CD Fellowship, Julien Sylvestre-Fleury explores how engaging industry, civil society, academia & tech experts can strengthen the UN Global Mechanism on ICT security

📖 https://t.co/dKxWJ5syiD

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🌐Strengthening cyber capacity-building in practice

Join our second EU:CD Fellowship webinar to explore how tools and mechanisms support capacity-building, with examples from the Western Balkans, Ukraine & Latin America

🗓26 May
⏰09:00 EST | 15:00 CET
👉https://t.co/eJxry0ezPw

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Is the EU at risk of treating offensive cyber as a “silver bullet”?

New blog by @LouMarieHSD examines the growing attention to offensive cyber, cautioning against “silver bullet” thinking and highlighting the need for complementarity and coordination.

🔗 https://t.co/bVVn0Nkbpr

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Last week, we hosted a roundtable part of the New Tech series.

💬 Discussions focused on economic and technological security agenda intersects with the environmental, material, and infrastructural demands of the advancing technological landscape.

🔗 https://t.co/RP1fclAerS

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📢 Join our roundtable “Monitoring the Frontiers of Innovation: Converging Technologies and Their Impact on Disarmament and Arms Control”

📅 23 March
📍 Brussels & Online

Learn more and register 👉 https://t.co/pNUXQk6X9V

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On 19-20 Feb, we welcomed the EU:CD Fellowship 2026 cohort to Brussels🇪🇺

From EU decision-making and coordination to operational cooperation, and a scenario-based exercise, fellows gained first-hand insight into how EU cyber diplomacy works in practice

🔗https://t.co/LNR86GuRJV

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🇺🇳 The UN Cybercrime Convention is now open for signature, but its real impact will be determined by how it is implemented

Concerns include Ambiguous definitions, weaker safeguards, state-centric control & limited multistakeholder participation

🔗https://t.co/JnfLG4w5bS

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With great pleasure we conclude the 7th European Cyber Diplomacy Dialogue 2026!

We warmly thank our speakers and delegates for their contributions, and the @EUI_EU and the @EUI_Schuman for their continued partnership and support.