The Vice-President of the European Fee for Values and Transparency, Věra Jourová, visited half of the EU Member States between January and June 2024, in a ‘Democracy Tour’ in preparation of the elections for the European Parliament held on 6 to 9 June 2024. She mentioned key features of the Fee suggestion on inclusive and resilient elections with nationwide authorities accountable for conduct and integrity of elections and with representatives of civil society.
The ‘Democracy Tour’ centered on the resilience of the informational area on-line, and 4 key areas of explicit menace emerged from the discussions with stakeholders: disinformation, overseas interference, the usage of Synthetic Intelligence (AI) applied sciences, and cybersecurity dangers.
The Memo annexed right here gathers the incidents recorded in the course of the electoral interval in connection to the 4 menace areas, based mostly on knowledge accessible on the time of writing. It focuses completely on features associated to the data area on-line and doesn’t cowl different features such because the organisation of elections or bodily threats.
It’s a working doc ready to help discussions within the framework of the European Cooperation Community on Elections on 11th October 2024 on the 2024 elections for the European Parliament and shutting the ‘Democracy Tour’. Ready underneath the authority of the Vice-President, it’s provided as enter to the continued preparatory work on the Fee’s broader post-election report, as introduced within the Defence of Democracy Package deal issued by the Fee in December 2023.
Based mostly on at the moment accessible data, no main data interference operation able to disrupting the elections was recorded. On the similar time, it’s extensively recognised that the menace ranges for data integrity throughout elections had been excessive, as confirmed by the activation by the European Council of the Built-in Political Disaster Response (IPCR) preparations for addressing overseas interference.
