CEN (European Committee for Standardization) and CENELEC (European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization) have signed a collaboration agreement with ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security). The three organisations have committed themselves to working together during the coming years on a range of issues related to cybersecurity and standardization.

The GLE members unanimously elected Wim Groenendijk, Vice-President International & Regulatory Affairs, N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie, as GLE President. Wim Groenendijk has been a member of the ENTSOG Board during its first term (2010-2012) and has been a member of the GIE Board since 2011. Upon his election, Wim Groenendijk said: “I am honoured to be entrusted the leadership of GLE and would like to thank the GLE members. I am confident that GLE will continue to provide added value to the market through the know-how and voluntary initiatives of its members.

European Union (EU) agency, ENISA is supporting the development of standards for products and services in cyber-security by today signing a collaboration agreement with two of the major standardisation bodies in the EU - CEN and CENELEC. The cooperation agreement has the objective of contributing more effectively to understanding and resolving Network and Information Security issues related to standardization, in particular in different ICT sectors that are of relevance for ENISA.

Following a Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing today in the European Parliament on the possibility of adding Lebanese party Hezbollah to the EU's blacklist of designated terrorist organisations, GUE/NGL MEP Marias Matias (Portugal) has described the EU's foreign policy in the Middle East, and most recently in Syria, as being "fraught with countless political and diplomatic errors which have shattered European influence in the region".