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On Monday, the recently formed European Democracy Shield Committee “voted” for who would be its chair. We place “voted” in quotations because the chair had been publicised in the French press hours before the vote was due to take place. Nonetheless, the charade that the chair had been “elected” continues.
“At its constitutive meeting on 3 February 2025, the Special committee on the European Democracy Shield (EUDS) elected the following bureau members: Chair: Nathalie LOISEAU,” the European Parliament announced.
When selling the idea of the European Democracy Shield, Ursula von der Leyen said it was needed “to detect disinformation and malign interference” in elections.
Judging by the way its chair was “elected,” before it has even begun its work, the European Democracy Shield Committee has failed to detect misinformation and malign interference in its own voting procedures.
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In December, the European Parliament took another step in its ongoing efforts to control the flow of information online by approving the creation of a new committee tasked with combating what it describes as foreign interference and disinformation. It was a concept publicly proposed by Ursula von der Leyen earlier in the year.
Before it was approved by the European Parliament, the European Democracy Shield (“EDS”) had already sparked concerns over its potential impact on democratic processes.
It is claimed that the EDS is intended to “combat foreign information manipulation, interference and disinformation; to strengthen the EU’s ability to detect, analyse and proactively counter threats; and to also address domestic threats to democracy.” But critics fear it could be used to suppress dissenting voices and manipulate election outcomes, and even cancel elections.
Proving that the EDS is not focused on protecting democracy, Member of the European Parliament (“MEP”) Nathalie Loiseau was selected as the EDS Committee chair before a vote had even taken place.
A vote was to be held on Monday, 3 February, to elect the Committee’s chair. However, on Monday morning a French news outlet La Lettre announced that “Nathalie Loiseau will be elected this evening at 6 pm.”
“This is theatre. Their definition of democracy is to be elected before a vote,” MEP Virginie Joron denounced in a video on X (formerly Twitter), pointing out that Nathalie Loiseau had already announced her election the weekend before the “vote.”
MEP António Tânger Corrêa also denounced the “sham democracy” at work in the European Parliament.
MEP Fidías Panayiótou expressed disappointment after losing the election for First Vice-Chair of the EDS Committee. In a video posted on Twitter (now X) announcing he was running for the position, Fidías predicted he wouldn’t win due to “backroom deals that arrange the positions in this parliament …this is not how democracy should work. ”
Euronews claimed to have “predicted” Loiseau would be “elected” as the Committee’s chair on 13 December 2024. The outlet went on to note the bias that is embedded within the European Parliament:
In line with the formation of parliamentary committees last July following the establishment of the new European Parliament, far-right factions were excluded from any chair or vice-chair positions, frozen out by a “cordon sanitaire” of the larger pro-European parties which distributed the roles among themselves, leaving smaller groups unable to challenge the decisions. Patriots for Europe, the third largest political force in Parliament with 86 MEPs, were notably affected. [Emphasis added]
European Parliament’s new democracy committee slammed as undemocratic, Euronews, 4 February 2025
What does “far-right” mean? Who decides what constitutes “far-right”? Perhaps the answer lies in Loiseau’s links to other organisations. Loiseau is a George Soros puppet. As The European Conservative noted:
Recently challenged by French Conservative MEP Marion Maréchal over her links with the European Council for International Relations (ECFR), which is partly funded by American-Hungarian billionaire George Soros, Nathalie Loiseau says she is “proud to exert her influence within one of the best think-tanks in Europe” and assumes her new responsibilities without viewing it as a conflict of interest.
EU ‘Democracy Shield’ Committee Selects Chair Before Vote, The European Conservative, 4 February 2025
Călin Georgescu won the first round of the presidential election in November 2024. Following the first round, he said he would stop all Romanian political and military support for Ukraine if elected. He believes that continuing with the war in Ukraine against Russia will escalate into World War III. In December Romania’s constitutional court annulled the result of the election. Last month Georgescu explained, “NATO and the EU have responded [to my remarks about stopping World War III] by staging a coup and refusing to recognise the election results and allow the second round of elections to proceed.”
On hearing the news about the creation of the EDS, Georgescu tweeted:
What Will the EDS Committee Do?
The 33-member strong EDS Committee is tasked with assessing existing and planned legislation and policies to detect possible loopholes, gaps and overlaps that could be exploited for “malicious interference.” This assessment is not limited to policies, legislative proposals and structures to be established under the EDS. It also includes legislation and policies regarding:
– relevant instruments under the Strategic Compass such as the EU Hybrid Toolbox;
– opportunities of cooperation among Union agencies and national authorities in the area of justice and home affairs, including for the purposes of information sharing, intelligence and advance detection mechanisms;
– policies and recommendations outlined in the report of 30 October 2024 entitled ‘Safer Together – Strengthening Europe’s Civilian and Military Preparedness and Readiness’;
– policies contributing to Union democratic processes, democratic resilience through situational awareness, media and information literacy, media pluralism and independent journalism, the promotion of civic engagement, education, critical thinking and citizens’ awareness and participation,
– democratic resilience against home-grown hybrid threats and attacks and malign interference;
– neighbourhood and global cooperation, and multilateralism;
– interference by Union-based actors both within the Union and in third countries;
– to counter information campaigns and strategic communication of malign third countries, including those through domestic Union actors and organisations, that harm the goals of the Union and that are created to influence Union public opinion; and,
– to maintain relations with other Union institutions and bodies, Member States authorities, other international organisations and interparliamentary assemblies, civil society as well as state and non-state partners in relevant third countries for matters falling under its responsibility, in order to reinforce Union action against hybrid threats and attacks and internal and foreign information manipulation and interference; to engage particularly with state and non-state partners in Ukraine and Moldova and the pro-European partners in Georgia as well as the countries from the Western Balkans; to counter manipulated narratives coming from Russia, given the critical and continuous danger Russia poses to the stability and security in the whole of the Union.
EU Aims to Control Elections in Countries That Are Not Member States
The final point above notes that the EDS will seek to engage with the EU’s state and non-state partners in Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and the Western Balkans countries. How are they justifying including countries outside the European Union (“EU”) within the EDS scheme?
Through the EDS, the EU is setting its sights on “defending the political systems of enlargement countries,” countries that are recognised as candidates for EU membership. There are currently nine countries recognised as candidates for membership in the European Union: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine.
Ukraine was granted candidate status by the EU in June 2022 and is hoping to progress to the next stage in the process of becoming a member this year. However, the EU can string these “enlargement countries” along for some time. Turkey, for example, was recognised as a candidate for full membership in December 1999 but its membership remains a distant reality.
During a policy discussion in December 2024 hosted by the European Economic and Social Committee (“EESC”) in collaboration with International IDEA, the European Partnership for Democracy and the Kofi Annan Foundation, policy discussion speakers agreed that the EDS should aim to “protect and promote democracy” both within the EU and beyond its borders:
The geographic scope of defending democracy should include not only the EU 27 Member States but also the enlargement countries, as they face constant challenges and attacks on their democracy. The Commission could step up its support to defending the political systems of enlargement countries by fighting cyberattacks in election campaigns, combatting disinformation, banning foreign funding and strengthening electoral observation.
Further takeaways of the policy discussion included: … The EU must give the EDS a strong external dimension beyond EU borders, with a special focus on extending it to countries in the EU’s enlargement region … The EU must provide a comprehensive protection to candidate countries by enhancing support to fight cyberattacks, combatting information manipulation … [Emphasis added]
Policy Discussion ‘Forging the European Democracy Shield’, IDEA, 12 December 2024
Broad statements like “combatting disinformation” raise a critical question: who determines what constitutes “disinformation”? In recent years, the term has increasingly been used to describe any information that contradicts the preferred narratives of governments and supranational organisations, such as the United Nations and the European Union.
The EU is a bulging, belching autocratic monster that needs to be dismantled, and the sooner the better.
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EU is Totten top to bottom.
Criminals in suits none more so epitomized than von der leyen.
The EU has barely grown its GDP since 2008. In comparison, the US has almost doubled its GDP in the same time frame. This says it all for the communist EU.
The US dollar is nearing its total collapse – When the massive debt bubble implodes the dollar will goto zero taking all the other worthless fiat currencies with it , the euro included – when this happens it is game over for the globalists because no sell out traitors will accept their worthless bits of jew paper as payment anymore – stack physical gold and silver people – its time to rid ourselves of these worthless satanic parasites
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np_ylvc8Zj8
…thought i’d mention. that towards the end Rhoda, in the fourth or fifth last paragraph re: the acronym EESC u have it as and Social and Economic, in the text reversing the order…very informative article, their nefarious machinations are relentless… i’ll have to go through the above again…here are a couple of links to what i’ve recently found… https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/-/huderia-new-tool-to-assess-the-impact-of-ai-systems-on-human-rights …https://bostonglobalforum.org/publication/aiws-pioneering-ai-governance-and-new-democracy/ …and AIWS artificial intelligence world society, included in one if not both links, there are two sites or something, i’d have to check again!…
Hi Gerry_O’C, thank you for pointing out my typo. I’ve corrected it now.
…ur welcome Rhoda!…it’s only a glitch, but it threw me out of synch momentarily… keep up the great work!…
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