In a wide-ranging interview on Polish radio station Wnet’s Poranka (Morning) program on September 19, non-resident research fellow Emmet Tuohy focused on the priorities of Estonian energy policy–especially as reflected during Estonia’s current presidency of the Council of the European Union–while also touching upon more general security issues.
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“Estonia is probably one of the most digitally dependent nations in the world. We really depend on the digital infrastructure, on e-government services in our daily lives. I think this is also reason why Estonia and Estonians take cyber security and cyber defence more seriously maybe than some other nations. Because our livelihood depends on that. Our economic well-being depends on that.” said Sven Sakkov, director of the International Centre for Defence and Security.
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On 13 September a group of scholars from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation visited ICDS.
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As the latest in a series of jihadi terrorist strikes in Europe in the past two years—though the first to target Spain since 2004—the Barcelona attacks have generated a series of debates in other European countries faced with the same phenomenon.
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On 12. September Dmitri Teperik and Ivo Juurvee from ICDS participated at the “3rd Subject Matter Expert Workshop” on Russia’s (dis-) information against the Nordic-Baltic in Riga.
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