A strong disinformation campaign was launched on social networks, directed against Ukrainian agricultural production in Bulgaria. The most popular fake news was that Ukrainian food was contaminated with heavy metals and even uranium. The Bulgarian authorities have carried out hundreds of inspections of Ukrainian grain and food...
Archived on June 21, 2023: European doctors toast to Irish alcohol labelling law
After a decree by Moldova’s Intelligence and Security Service that blocked 31 websites to be blocked immediately for “online content used in the war of information against the Republic Of Moldova”, adding to 22 blocked earlier this month, the new list included 14 Russian news sources, including prominent newspaper...
Chinese EV prices were being “kept artificially low by huge state subsidies”, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said. State subsidies that make exports artificially cheap are banned under World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules, and the EU has opted for punitive tariffs on similarly subsidised Chinese solar...
Moldova, which has relied heavily on Russian gas, has been working to diversify its energy sources, especially since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Submarine cables account for the majority of the world's internet traffic, but as concerns over malicious actors moving to cripple or interfere with internet infrastructure increase, the European Union has a number of its own projects underway, underpinned by hidden political dynamics.
What to do if citizens protest to ask the German government to oppose the widespread mass interception program on private messaging wanted by the European Commission and approved by the European Parliament?...
"In the current geopolitical situation, our industry is competing with companies that are directly or indirectly supported by their own governments,” Christian Ehler, lawmaker of centre-right EPP group and chief negotiator for the law, says....
The EU delegation in each non-EU country is the diplomatic representation of the EU in the territory, under the European External Action Service (EEAS)....
Kyiv says about 20,000 children have been removed to Russia or Russian-held territory without the consent of family or guardians, which it says amounts to a war crime that meets the UN treaty definition of genocide....
The initiative came after two reports by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) that revealed a trade in real-time bidding data on EU and US leaders and military personnel sent by Google and other firms to China and Russia....
Pro-Russian opposition parties, the Bulgarian Socialist Party and Vazrazhdane, criticised the government’s security policy during the debate on the vote of no-confidence motion they filed against the government....
The arrangement focuses on exchange in three domains: best practices, information sharing and capacity building.
Negotiators from EU countries and the European Parliament agreed on a landmark new law to restore at least 20% of Europe’s land and sea areas by 2030 and all ecosystems in need of restoration by 2050.
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A Strategic Ligitation Against Public Participation (SLAPP) is an abusive lawsuits filed by entities or individuals with the aim of stopping a story or line of investigation by intimidating or draining the time and finances of the target, not necessarily with the goal of obtaining a court judgment in their favour.
