INFORMATION SECURITY POLICY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

Abstract

Today, the information sphere plays a major role as a field of interaction and confrontation between subjects of international relations. Information and mass communications are increasingly becoming a tool of influence. For actors in international relations, it has become obvious that communications can be an independent means to achieve a goal. The information space provided enhanced opportunities for interaction among people, state and non-state institutions, commercial and non-commercial organisations. In this regard, the issue of information security and the development and implementation of a tool that will allow us to effectively maintain the level of protection and security in the information space and behind its limits is an acute problem. A clear example of the effective development of information policy is the European Union. The general EU communication and information policy is implemented through the European Commission, the European Council, the EU Information Society Forum, the General Directorate for the Information Society, the General Directorate for Education and Culture, as well as through information centres in member countries of the organisation and outside its borders [1]. It should be noted that the information policy of the European Union is constantly being improved. Considerable attention is paid to the legal principles of information security suggesting the development of normative legal acts, EU experts are actively engaged in work aimed at improving legislation on the prevention of disinformation. The EU states direct all their efforts to protect information systems from external negative influence and create all the necessary conditions for the proper and safe functioning of the state and society. For Ukraine, the experience of effective implementation of the information security policy is particularly important, taking into account the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia, and also as one of the integrating factors of Ukraine into Europe.