Discussions at COSAC focus on security and Russian hybrid war against the free world

The main message of the Chairman of the EUAC Peeter Tali to his colleagues in other national parliaments is that Russia is waging a non-kinetic war against the free world. “The Kremlin is using cyberattacks, information operations, and hostile influencing activities to rupture the unity that is based on EU values, and to break our will. The European Union must be ready to respond to several crises at once and prevent these. This is why we need to develop the digital and cyber capabilities of our people and regularly drill the necessary activities.”

Today, the participants will discuss the priorities of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the next long-term budget in light of the challenges lying ahead of the Union, as well as the working plans of the European Commission and Parliament, and the EU strategic action plan in the new period. Tomorrow, the debates will focus on the EU enlargement policy and the need for concentrated efforts by the Member States to promote cyber security and combat misinformation.

Before the plenary sitting, the delegation met with Estonia’s Ambassador to Poland Miko Haljas yesterday. In May, the chairs of the European Union Affairs Committees of the national parliaments of the Member States around the Baltic Sea met in Latvia to prepare for the COSAC meeting.

The Riigikogu delegation at the COSAC plenary in Warsaw, Poland, is made up of the Chairman of the EUAC Peeter Tali, Deputy Chairman Vladimir Arhipov, and member of the committee Kristo Enn Vaga.

COSAC is a cooperation format that brings together the European Union Affairs Committees of the national parliaments of the 27 EU Member States.

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Source: Parliament of Estonia