MEPs push for tighter cyber intelligence norms despite cooperation glitches

• BRUSSELS - European Commission orders hybrid warfare centre in response to Russian threat

• PARIS/HELSINKI - Jeffrey Apeldoorn takes charge of ICEYE public contracts in Europe.

• BERLIN - Plath seeks to influence German defence policy.

• NEW YORK/TEL-AVIV - Carbyne's advisory board slims.

Belgian cyber command takes shape 

Belgium will inaugurate its cyber command, closely overseen by military intelligence, on 19 October.

• TEL AVIV - Rayzone co-founder Ron Zilka goes solo.
  

• ATLANTA/HELSINKI - US Grayshift joins forces with Finland's Moonsoft as it spreads its European wings.
  

• ABU DHABI/WASHINGTON - AmCham Abu Dhabi ropes in more cloud specialists with Red Hat and Trend Micro.

• MADRID - Spain's GMV to provide algorithms to European Maritime Safety Agency for GEOINT data analysis.

• BRUSSELS - Andreas Constantinides, former APCO and Amcham EU, turns  European lobbyist for the US cloud.

Kyiv's patchwork of anti-disinformation initiatives struggles to unite 

Kyiv has used extensive and highly targeted communication techniques to counter Russian narratives, but struggles to bring together a plethora of individual initiatives in the field. One of them has registered itself in Brussels, reportedly to try to influence EU thinking on the matter.

Why West African producers snubbed World Cocoa Foundation meeting 

The business and political leaders of Ivory Coast and Ghana's cocoa sectors did not attend the partnership meeting between the world's chocolate producers in Brussels this week. Their aim was to put pressure on European decision-makers working on new supply standards.