EC Midday press briefing of 06/11/2026
6 November 2026
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European Commission
Follow its sittings00:00 - 00:00
Gina.
00:00 - 00:20
Speaker 2
Thanks. Gina Smialek from the New York Times. I was just wondering if you had any updates on the hybrid attacks or whatever they were that we saw yesterday, the bomb threats that grounded a lot of planes and whether there's any further information, whether the Commission or the European Union broadly are looking into that in any way.
00:20 - 00:33
Speaker 5
Gina. Yeah, we'll have Anitta Hipper sharing with us the latest.
00:33 - 01:34
Speaker 7
We take these threats very seriously. Any threats against civilians are absolutely unacceptable and it is our pri- top priority to secure the and ensure the safety and security of our citizens. So, what we are doing in these situations where the main responsibility to investigate and look into these matters rests with the member states is that we are in touch, for example, with our European Aviation Safety Agency which looks into the safety, aviation safety aspects, and whether these security threats might have any impact on aviation safety where they can take action. What we have been seeing so far concern aviation security. That means we are obviously, as Commission, we're the regulator, we have rules in place that concern aviation security, for example, screening of passengers, screening of cargo, etc.
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