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• EU foreign ministers stick up for Wikileaks

  The European Union's foreign ministers issued a statement on Thursday reiterating the rights of whistleblowing websites such as Wikileaks.

• Simulated cyberattack unites EU and US security experts

  Almost 100 computer experts from 16 European countries jointly battled to hold off serious cyberattacks on the European Union's security agencies and power plants as part of a simulated exercise on Thursday.

• EU countries must devote 800MHz band to wireless broadband by 2013

  Europe's Council of Ministers has said that all European Union countries must make the 800MHz band available for wireless broadband services by Jan. 1, 2013 as part of an ambitious deal agreed on Friday.

• New EU law to remove online sales headache

  The days of European online shoppers getting the message "this product is not available in your country" could be numbered.

• EU wants to push telcos to ditch copper, lay fiber

  Large telecommunications companies must stop using copper-network pricing as a barrier to deploying fiber networks, or Europe will not meet its broadband targets, said the digital agenda commissioner on Monday.

• Civil liberties groups slam EU data retention as unnecessary

  A large group of digital rights organizations has demanded proof from the European Commission that the retention of data in the European Union is necessary and proportionate for fighting serious crime.

• EU countries must do more to protect children online

  European Union states are failing to sufficiently protect children online, a new European Commission study contends.

• Groups to urge abolition of EU data retention directive

  Civil liberties groups will gather in Brussels Saturday to call for the abolition of the European Union's data retention directive.

• German crime stats deal blow to EU's data retention laws

  The latest statistics published by German police show that telecommunications data retention has had no positive impact on the number of cases solved.

• Location data is personal and private confirms EU watchdog

  The European Union data protection watchdog says that geo-location constitutes private data.

• Internet resilience must be tested says EU cyberagency

  Europe's cybersecurity agency ENISA has raised concerns that a lack of information of the size and shape of the Internet infrastructure makes it vulnerable to attack. Meanwhile, the Hungarian Presidency of the European Union has warned that the Internet must be viewed as a "theater of war."

• European legislators consider net filter for Europe

  European Union plans to "create a single secure cyberspace" have come under fire from civil liberties groups, with many saying that they only serve to highlight how far the bloc still has to go in understanding the modern online world.

• Simulated cyber attack reveals EU flaws in coordination

  Some 55 percent of national information technology agencies would not know who to contact in the event of a European Union cyber attack, according to E.U. cybersecurity agency ENISA.

• IT companies lead the field in e-procurement take-up in EU

  Take-up of e-procurement in the European Union remains stubbornly low despite efforts by authorities to make it more easily available and useable, although IT companies are among the first adopters.

• EU warns UK to change two non-resident company tax laws

  The European Union has told the U.K. to change two pieces of tax legislation on the transfer of assets to non-U.K. resident companies or further action may be taken to force compliance.