Baltic Sea Cable Cuts Can’t Be Accident, EU Tech Chief Says
- EU digital and security commissioner speaks to Bloomberg TV
- EU will work with Baltics, NATO to better respond to incidents
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The European Union’s new digital chief, Henna Virkkunen, suggested the repeated damage to undersea cables in the Baltic Sea couldn’t be fully accidental, as leaders from the region prepare to gather for a NATO summit devoted to the topic.
“It can’t really be by accident if these are happening many times a year,” Virkkunen, the European Commission’s executive vice president for technological sovereignty, security and democracy, told Bloomberg TV in an interview taped on Monday.