The European Union and NATO announced on Wednesday the creation of a joint working group to improve the resilience of critical infrastructures in the face of threats such as sabotage or Russia’s use of energy supplies as a weapon, EFE reports, Agerpres reads.

„Today we are putting into operation an EU-NATO working group for the protection of critical infrastructures”, announced the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in a joint statement with the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance, Jens Stoltenberg.

„This is a working group in which our experts from NATO and the European Union will work side by side to identify the main threats to our critical infrastructures, examine the strategic vulnerabilities we have and, of course, develop principles -key to improve our resistance and will propose palliative and corrective measures”, explained the head of the European executive.

Von der Leyen, who signed on Tuesday together with Stoltenberg and the president of the European Council, Charles Michel, the third declaration of cooperation between the EU and NATO, with which they will take the collaboration between the two organizations to „a new level”, said that, at first, the working group will deal with four sectors: transport, energy, digital and space. „And, of course, we will inform the member states and our allies of the results,” she added.

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