International

Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal today agreed to SP Member of Parliament Harry van Bommel’s request to commission an independent report – from the Advisory Council on International Issues (AIV) - on the risks of an attack via the Internet, or so-called ‘cyber attack’. Combating international aggression via the Internet will be discussed next weekend at the NATO summit in Lisbon, and fresh measures may find a place in the alliance’s new strategic concept.

During a meeting organized today in the European Parliament on the role of co-operatives, representative of the European Commission Michel Barnier announced that concrete proposals were being developed designed to adjust European legislation which was disadvantageous to the interests of such groups. It was agreed that before the summer of 2011 a ‘wish-list’ would be provided which Commissioner Barnier and others will be able to use in the framework of the proposed European Social Business Act.