Europe and Latin America boost cybersecurity cooperation efforts

TLDR:

• Europe and Latin America & the Caribbean held a high-level policy dialogue on cybersecurity.
• Over 150 senior government representatives, along with civil society, academia, and the private sector, gathered to identify initiatives to tackle cyber threats.

In an interconnected world, cyber threats have increased, leading to a dialogue focused on key cybersecurity issues such as cyberdiplomacy, capacity building, and protecting critical infrastructure. The dialogue emphasized workforce capacity building, multi-stakeholder cooperation, resilient cyber ecosystems, and secure connectivity. This cooperation aims to enhance global cybersecurity and align shared values and norms for a safe cyberspace.

Since 2006, the EU High Representative has led diplomatic efforts between the E3/EU+3 and Iran, leading to the JCPOA in 2015 to ensure Iran’s nuclear program is peaceful.

The EU focuses on preventing and resolving conflicts, supporting resilient democracies, promoting human rights, fighting climate change, and contributing to a rules-based global order.

Furthermore, the EU works on peace, security, defense, crisis response, human rights, democracy, gender equality, climate change, multilateral relations, migration, and humanitarian and emergency response, among others.