The need to build a competitive, resilient, and truly integrated digital ecosystem in Europe was highlighted by Nicodemos Damianou, Deputy Minister of Research, Innovation, and Digital Policy of Cyprus, as he opened on Monday the "Future-proofing the EU's digital connectivity" conference on the Digital Networks Act (DNA), held under the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU. The conference took place at the Council of the EU in Brussels, in the presence of Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for Technological Sovereignty, Security, and Democracy, and Alejandra de Iturriaga Gandini, Vice-Chair of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC).