STRASBOURG – in Order to avoid that companies or other countries, elections in Europe manipulate the European Commission sets new rules for. “We have to have our free and fair elections to protect”, said president Jean-Claude Juncker.
“We have to have our free and fair elections to protect”, said president Jean-Claude Juncker.
The daily EU administration warns of “massive online desinformatiecampagnes.” Without them explicitly mention referred Juncker to the scandal around Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, and the attempts of Russia’s electoral influence.
The rules for political advertising on the internet be tightened. European political parties can be fined if they personal data to cause the outcome of the European elections deliberately to influence. Which can be up to 5 percent of their annual budget. They can about the year of the violation no European grant applications. National parties should provide information on their expenditure for advertising campaigns on the internet.
“Must not be naive’
“We should not be naive: some want the European elections to disrupt and they have sophisticated instruments,” warns vicevoozitter Frans Timmermans. He encourages the member states are urged to work closely together to verkiezingsmanipulatie and datamisbruik to prevent, to “our democratic resilience to strengthen.”
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