Routledge Companion to Global Cyber-Security Strategy

18 EUROPEAN UNION

Policy, cohesion, and supranational experiences with cybersecurity

Christopher Whyte

Introduction

Cybersecurity is one of the greatest areas of policy prioritization for the European Union (EU) (European Parliament and Council, 2016). Time and again, the statements of EU officials and the language of major policy documentation has emphasized the degree to which networks and network-enabled critical infrastructures constitute the foundation of the Union’s economic and political processes. Today, the EU contains hundreds of millions of citizens using billions of Internet-connected devices to engage in commercial activity, to participate in politics and, perhaps most significantly, to communicate across the regional, national, ...