European Commission unveils its big plan to save democracy
Fighting for democracy is the 27-member bloc's foremost enshrined value, but NGOs and MEPs argue that the new Democracy Shield falls short on concrete measures and funding.
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00:00The European Commission has unveiled Democracy Shield on Wednesday, a roadmap to better protect democracies and electoral processes from foreign interference and information manipulation, including those originating from within the bloc itself.
00:17The Commission has explicitly and pointedly included EU candidate countries in this defensive plan.
00:22And the communication on the EU strategy. At the core of the Democracy Shield is reinforcing public trust in democracy and democratic institutions.
00:32The European Democracy Shield rests on three pillars. First, safeguarding our information space. Second, strengthening democratic institutions and third, boosting our societal resilience.
00:46The centerpiece of Democracy Shield is the creation of a European Center for Democratic Resilience to identify destabilization operations and coordinate the work of fact-checking networks.
00:57The Commission also proposed setting up a voluntary network of influencers to hold accountable those influencers who are taking part in political campaigns.
01:06For Nathalie Loiseau, French MEP and head of the Democracy Shield Committee, the Commission must first apply the rules it adopted to regulate its online sphere.
01:14The Commission should be the position of a leader.
01:15The diafrognation of the EU strategy is indeed a massive war.
01:21It is also the behaviour of platform like TikTok, which many questions are posed.
01:26But it is even more the collusion between the Americans and the American media platforms.
01:33And on the other hand, we have the impression that the Andrew Lignan has done pain in the ground.
01:37She tells us that she will determine what we're going to do with the legislation we've put in.
01:42I would say it's all.
01:44Several rules aimed at protecting electoral processes have already been adopted,
01:48for example in the Digital Services Act and the AI Act.
01:52Yet under pressure from US tech giants backed by the Trump administration,
01:56commission sanctions have yet to materialize.
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