EU Officials Pledge to Bolster Cyber Defenses as More Nations Call for Unified Stance on Huawei

Senior figures in Brussels have vowed to beef up Europe’s cyber defenses in a coded warning to Chinese telecom giant Huawei.
EU Officials Pledge to Bolster Cyber Defenses as More Nations Call for Unified Stance on Huawei
The Huawei logo is displayed in a trade fair on June 12, 2018 in Hanover, Germany. Alexander Koerner/Getty Images
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BRUSSELS—Amid new calls for a continent-wide response to state-sponsored digital security threats, senior figures in Brussels have vowed to beef up Europe’s cyber defenses in a coded warning to Chinese telecom giant Huawei.

The European Union’s security commissioner, Julian King, said regulators wouldn’t “walk away” from the challenge and insisted it was “entirely legitimate” for the bloc to take action to defend itself.