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EU strengthens cross-regional cooperation with Black Sea countries, the South Caucasus and Central Asia Yesterday, the EU brought together foreign ministers and representatives from EU Member States, Armenia, Azerbaijan, the Republic of Moldova, Türkiye, Ukraine, and Central Asian partners (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) to discuss the Cross-Regional Connectivity Agenda – whose aim is to link the EU with Central Asia via Türkiye and the South Caucasus. European Commission appoints a new Deputy Director-General in its Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology The European Commission today appointed Despina Spanou as Deputy Director-General in charge of the Directorate for Cybersecurity and Trust at the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT). She led the negotiations for the Cybersecurity Act and the EU Cybersecurity Blueprint, and played a central role in creating the EU Cybersecurity Skills Academy and the Women4Cyber initiative. She previously served as Head of Unit for the assessment and benchmarking of national reforms and earlier as Head of Unit for analysing the impact of EU policies on national economies, both at the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN).