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France wants to share cost of Balkan Cyber Capacity Centre

By Pierre Januel

Published on 24.02.2025 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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France, which currently provides over 80% of the funding for the Balkans Cyber Capacity Centre in Montenegro, hopes that its transformation into an international organisation will attract other donors.

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