FILE - In this May 9, 2011 file picture people use a infrared-DIC microscopy to do multi-neuron patch-clamp recording in the Blue Brain team and the Human Brain Project (HBP) laboratory of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland. Two European science projects - one to map the intricacies of the human brain, the other to explore the extraordinary carbon-based material graphene — won an EU technology contest Monday, Jan. 28, 2013, getting up to euro1 billion ($1.34 billion) each over the next decade. The projects were selected from 26 proposals. (AP Photo/Keystone/Laurent Gillieron)
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FILE - In this May 9, 2011 file picture people use a infrared-DIC microscopy to do multi-neuron patch-clamp recording in the Blue Brain team and the Human Brain Project (HBP) laboratory of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland. Two European science projects - one to map the intricacies of the human brain, the other to explore the extraordinary carbon-based material graphene — won an EU technology contest Monday, Jan. 28, 2013, getting up to euro1 billion ($1.34 billion) each over the next decade. The projects were selected from 26 proposals. (AP Photo/Keystone/Laurent Gillieron)
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FILE - In this May 9, 2011 file picture people use a infrared-DIC microscopy to do multi-neuron patch-clamp recording in the Blue Brain team and the Human Brain Project (HBP) laboratory of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland. The Blue Brain team has come together with 12 other European and international partners to propose the Human Brain Project (HBP), a candidate for funding under the EU's FET Flagship program. The Blue Brain Project is an attempt to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. (AP Photo/Keystone/Laurent Gillieron)
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FILE - In this May 9, 2011 file picture scientist Ying Shi looks into a microscope at the Blue Brain team and the Human Brain Project (HBP) of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland. The Blue Brain team works together with other European and international partners to propose the Human Brain Project (HBP), a candidate for funding under the EU's FET Flagship program. The Blue Brain Project is an attempt to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. (AP Photo/Keystone/Laurent Gillieron,File)
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FILE - In this Thursday, July 19, 2012 file photo, a damaged bus is transported out of Burgas airport, Bulgaria, a day after a deadly suicide attack on a bus full of Israeli vacationers. Lebanon’s prime minister has expressed his readiness to cooperate with Bulgarian authorities over a bomb attack linked to Hezbollah that killed five Israelis and their Bulgarian driver, in a statement Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. Prime Minister Najib Mikati whose Cabinet is dominated by members of the Shiite Muslim group and its allies also says he condemns and rejects any attack that targets an Arab or foreign country.(AP Photo/ Impact Press Group, File)
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FILE - In this November 12, 2010 file photo, Hezbollah fighters hold their party flags, as they parade during the opening of new cemetery for colleagues who died in fighting against Israel, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. Lebanon’s prime minister has expressed his readiness to cooperate with Bulgarian authorities over a bomb attack linked to Hezbollah that killed five Israelis and their Bulgarian driver, in a statement Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. Prime Minister Najib Mikati whose Cabinet is dominated by members of the Shiite Muslim group and its allies also says he condemns and rejects any attack that targets an Arab or foreign country.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
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Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, left, and Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov, right, enter the Consultative Council meeting on National Security at the Bulgarian President's office in Sofia, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. Investigators are releasing a summary of their findings to the Bulgarian government Tuesday which is widely expected to link the militant group Hezbollah to the bus bomb attack on July 18, 2012, that killed five Israeli tourists in the coastal city of Burgas, Bulgaria. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)
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Bulgarian officials attend the Consultative Council meeting on National Security at the Bulgarian President's office in Sofia, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. Investigators are releasing a summary of their findings to the Bulgarian government Tuesday, which is widely expected to link the militant group Hezbollah to the bus bomb attack on July 18, 2012, that killed five Israeli tourists in the coastal city of Burgas, Bulgaria. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)
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Europol's director Rob Wainwright looks on during an interview in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday Feb. 4, 2013. Investigators say a Canadian and an Australian are suspects in a remote-controlled bomb attack that killed Israeli tourists in Bulgaria. Authorities also said that evidence in the bombing pointed back to Lebanon and to the Islamist militant group Hezbollah. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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FILE - In this Friday, July 20, 2012 file photo, family and friends attend the funeral of Itzik Kolengi, 28, who was killed and his wife injured in a suicide bombing in Bulgaria Wednesday in Petah Tikva, Israel. Lebanon’s prime minister has expressed his readiness to cooperate with Bulgarian authorities over a bomb attack linked to Hezbollah that killed five Israelis and their Bulgarian driver, in a statement Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. Prime Minister Najib Mikati whose Cabinet is dominated by members of the Shiite Muslim group and its allies also says he condemns and rejects any attack that targets an Arab or foreign country.(AP Photo/Dan Balilty, File)
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French President Francois Hollande, right, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel chat before the soccer friendly match between France and Germany in the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, France, Wednesday, Feb.6,2013. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
EU pushes plans for safer, more secure Internet
BRUSSELS (AP) — EU officials are pushing a plan to make the Internet safer — more resistant to cyberattacks, freer from cybercrime and safer for children to use.
The proposal unveiled Thursday would require each of the European Union's 27 nations to designate an authority to prevent and respond to Internet risks and incidents.
It would require the operators of networks in critical areas, such as financial services, transport, energy and health, to adopt risk-management practices and report major security threats.
Neelie Kroes, the EU's commissioner for the Digital Agenda, said "the more people rely on the Internet, the more people rely on it to be secure."
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