# EU Commission Presents Cybersecurity and AI Action Plan With €300M Investment

> The European Commission has unveiled an action plan that treats cybersecurity and artificial intelligence as one problem rather than two, backed by roughly 300 million euros, with 200 million from existing EU programs and 100 million from the EIC Fund. The headline ambition is sovereignty: Europe wants its own capacity to evaluate advanced AI models rather than relying on assessments run by the labs that build them. Concretely, the plan sets up an EU model-evaluation capability, a secure platform for testing AI in cybersecurity using simulated environments for critical sectors, and an ENISA blueprint defining how public and private organizations get structured access to frontier systems. It also funds a campaign to harden critical open-source software and new cyber-AI training modules, with the evaluation capacity slated to come online in 2027. The subtext is strategic autonomy. As the US and China dominate model development, Europe is trying to carve out authority over how those models are judged and deployed, betting that whoever controls evaluation shapes the rules everyone else follows.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: European Commission · Published Monday, July 20, 2026_

## Wortins' read

The European Commission has unveiled an action plan that treats cybersecurity and artificial intelligence as one problem rather than two, backed by roughly 300 million euros, with 200 million from existing EU programs and 100 million from the EIC Fund. The headline ambition is sovereignty: Europe wants its own capacity to evaluate advanced AI models rather than relying on assessments run by the labs that build them. Concretely, the plan sets up an EU model-evaluation capability, a secure platform for testing AI in cybersecurity using simulated environments for critical sectors, and an ENISA blueprint defining how public and private organizations get structured access to frontier systems. It also funds a campaign to harden critical open-source software and new cyber-AI training modules, with the evaluation capacity slated to come online in 2027. The subtext is strategic autonomy. As the US and China dominate model development, Europe is trying to carve out authority over how those models are judged and deployed, betting that whoever controls evaluation shapes the rules everyone else follows.

## Source

[Read the full story at European Commission](https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-presents-eu-action-plan-cybersecurity-and-artificial-intelligence)

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