MAIN APPROACHES AND DIRECTIONS OF DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPEAN UNION CYBER SECURITY POLICY

The implementation of digital technologies into all spheres of society's life, along with many advantages, has caused the emergence of new security challenges, the response to which requires flexible, innovative and complex approaches, a quick and coordinated reaction, and the consolidation of efforts of many stakeholders. In recent years, significant results in the development and realization of cybersecurity policy have been achieved by the European Union, which, thanks to the combination of institutional capabilities at the community level, efforts of member states, cooperation with business and international partners, is already implementing a number of coordinated initiatives in the field of cybersecurity. The experience of the EU in solving the problems of safe digital development can be a benchmark for other states, including Ukraine. The article examines the development of the main approaches and directions of the EU cyber security policy from the end of the 90s of the 20th century to the present day. It has been established that since the beginning of the 2000s, the European Commission outlined a common approach to the EU cyber security policy, which provided for the furt