EC Midday press briefing of 10/11/2026
10 November 2026
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European Commission
Follow its sittings00:02 - 00:36
Speaker 3
Foreign Affairs, but a different topic from Jennifer Rankin, The Guardian. Yesterday, France attributed responsibility for the cyber attacks on French supermarkets to Iran, and I've seen that the High Rep has said this will be discussed at the Foreign Affairs Council coming up next week, I think. Do you have anything more to add today? Do you share France's assessment that Iran was responsible for these attacks, and are you looking at drawing up possible sanctions?
00:36 - 02:15
Speaker 2
Good afternoon, thank you. Thank you for the question. The European Union stands in full solidarity with France following the cyber attacks that disrupted refrigeration systems in hundreds of French supermarkets. We acknowledge that France has attributed this to Iran. Pending discussions with member states, we, as European Union, we stand ready to come with a swift and united response.
We as EU, we have consistently called on all states to refrain from malicious behaviour in the cyberspace, and we will continue to address such malicious behaviour making use of all the tools that we have, also under the EU cyber diplomacy toolbox, including sanctions. And we also have additional tools such as the EU CyCLONe network, the Cyber Resilience Act, and the NIS 2 Directive. And as for sanctions, let me recall here that we have already designated the IRGC as terrorist organisation, and have imposed sweeping sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme, human rights violations, and also for impeding freedom of navigation. And as to cyber in particular, I would also like to recall here that no later than in March 2026, we have adopted restrictive measures under the EU cyber sanctions regime against the Iranian entity Emmenet Pasargad for targeting several member states, notably Sweden and France, and we are working on more cyber sanctions.
02:15 - 02:17
Speaker 1
Good. Then I take Pierre Benazet online?
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