02. November 2024
Published on the occasion of the "Coalition Against Disinformation" Conference in Washington, DC by author and speaker Dietmar Pichler, Director of the Disinfo Resilience Network, Vienna Russian Influence and Interference in Europe and the West: An Overview Russian foreign interference takes many forms. It includes overt propaganda, such as fabricated images or deepfake videos circulated online, as well as more subtle narratives, like portraying "the threat of NATO expansion" to frame Russia's...
07. Oktober 2024
Political leaders and civil society must act to counter ideological subversion—the full list of Russian-paid actors must be made public Dietmar Pichler, Director of the Disinfo Resilience Network Vienna: Moscow has been infiltrating liberal democracies for decades, focusing not only on information outflows (espionage) but also on information inflows (pro-Russian propaganda). Liberal democracies, as well as countries aligned with Russia, are both targets of Russian propaganda, subversive...
08. November 2022
The coal and Energy Agreement was more of a peace agreement, one way of keeping France and Germany from fighting each other. After the Paris Agreement was signed and came into force, there was nothing for 30 years on EU energy policy. EU did many things but never looked into energy. Why? It was not a transborder issue. It was not concerned with the energy sector in the sense of trading, how the companies need to be structured and how the networks would be governed. The most important is the...
07. Januar 2021
Kinga Brudzińska, PhD, is Programme Director of Future of Europe for GLOBSEC Policy Institute. Kinga has ten years of professional experience in country-specific and policy analysis and advice. Her main research interests lie in the fields of EU foreign policy and EU institutional architecture, with a particular focus on relations among the Member States, and the concept of differentiated European integration. She has chiefly worked on Visegrad countries, and Spanish speaking world. Prior to...
16. Oktober 2020
Introduction The development of the EU is a remarkable success story of international cooperation; “The European Union is an extraordinary-and extraordinarily controversial-case of cooperation between sovereign states”. The EU has always caused a lot of questions and debates regarding its nature because it`s a unique institution that sits between the federation system and international organization? One of the very basic explanation is: “EU is not a federal state like the United States of...
13. Oktober 2020
Mehr als 20 Länder auf der ganzen Welt haben am Sa., 10.10.20 die wöchentlichen Samstags-Frauendemos in Belarus unterstützt.Auch in Wien hat Demo „Frauen für Frauen in Belarus“ stattgefunden: am Ballhausplatz, beim Denkmal für die Verfolgten der NS-Militärjustiz. Veranstaltet von Verein „Belarussische Diaspora in Österreich“ & Verein AÖF „Autonome Österreichische Frauenhäuser“ Mag.a Maria Rösslhumer www.aoef.at & „Allianz Gewaltfei leben“...
08. Oktober 2020
Anzhela Mnatsakanyan is a political researcher, focusing on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the Eastern Partnership. Currently, she is a PhD student at Yerevan State University. She holds an Advanced master's degree in Arts in European interdisciplinary studies from the College of Europe in Natolin and a master's degree in International Relations from Yerevan State University. Anzhela is an author of the numbers of academic papers and research articles on the Military policy of Armenia and...
06. Oktober 2020
This past week, the first Budapest Sustainability Exchange took place, launching a cross-sectoral and cross-party reflection on green cooperation between the V4 countries. The two-day conference attracted hundreds of participants both in-person and virtually via Livestream, creating a unique, interactive forum for dialogue. The Exchange marked the finale to a series of events across the four countries, giving sustainability actors and young leaders the opportunity to discuss how and why the V4...
10. August 2020
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission "Harassment & violent repression of peaceful protesters has no place in Europe. Fundamental rights in Belarus must be respected. I call on the Belarusian authorities to ensure that the votes in yesterday’s election are counted & published accurately." Source: https://twitter.com/vonderleyen/status/1292762483485179904