EuroISPA General Meeting in Brussels: a recap
Brussels, March 27-28, 2025
Last week, the EuroISPA community convened in Brussels for the first General Meeting of the year, bringing together Council and Forum members, Board Officers and Secretariat, in the EuroISPA offices for a very fruitful exchange.
Our members gathered to recap the activities of the association in 2024 and discuss the next steps in the new mandate of the European institutions, identifying priority areas for EuroISPA to focus on in 2025 and beyond, as well as revamped ways of working.
The agenda included as usually exchanging insights on the strategic way forward of current topics of attention for our Committees’ work:
📌 in the Online Content Committee, we discussed the ongoing developments around child protection and CSAM Regulation negotiations and the ongoing and upcoming activities of the association on piracy, especially in close coordination with the EUIPO.
📌 the Data Economy Committee, focusing on the ongoing and upcoming work of the institutions around, among others, the Internal Security Strategy, the Digital Fairness Act, and debated on the future of the Data Privacy Framework, ePrivacy and AI.
📌 the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Committee, with updates on critical past and upcoming institutional works such as the DNA, CRA and CSA consultations, NIS2 and the Council Conclusions on reliable and resilient connectivity. The Committee was delighted to appoint its new Chair – Elisabeth Debar from FFT. We are confident that her experience in cyber policies, both at the French and the European level, will bring invaluable expertise to the Committee.
Read more about the work of our Committees here.
During the two days, EuroISPA had the pleasure of welcoming high-level speakers, with whom members had the opportunity to exchange and debate on relevant matters for the internet industry:
🔹 Kia Slæbæk Jensen, Defence, Cyber and Hybrid Threats Attachée at the Danish Permanent Representation to the EU, on cyber and infrastructure resilience as well as Denmark’s cyber priorities, ahead of the upcoming Danish EU Presidency
🔹 Werner Stengg, Cabinet Expert of Executive-Vice President of the European Commission for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy Henna Virkkunen, on Opportunities and challenges of the new EU institutional mandate
🔹 Katinka Clausdatter Worsøe, Telecom Attachée at the Danish Permanent Representation to the EU on Denmark’s Digital and Telecom Priorities, ahead of the upcoming Danish EU Presidency
Finally, we had the pleasure of having with us Keilin Tammepärg, Head of Policy and Legal affairs of the Estonian Association of Information Technology and Telecommunications, bringing one more national association’s perspective to the table.
Thank you to all our members who participated actively in the discussions and to our guest speakers for providing valuable insights.
The next EuroISPA General Meeting will be held in Paris in June – stay tuned!
