{"id":60360,"date":"2018-01-23T12:22:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T12:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/eu-needs-tougher-defense-against-russian-propaganda-meps-4\/"},"modified":"2018-01-23T12:22:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T12:22:42","slug":"eu-needs-tougher-defense-against-russian-propaganda-meps-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/eu-needs-tougher-defense-against-russian-propaganda-meps-4\/","title":{"rendered":"EU needs tougher defense against Russian propaganda: MEPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Europe needs to bolster defenses against Russian meddling substantially ahead of upcoming elections, notably by spending much more, MEPs argued Wednesday during a plenary debate in Strasbourg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNext year the citizens of Europe will elect a new European Parliament. How many seats will Russia get? Let\u2019s not kid ourselves. Russian meddling is becoming the norm,\u201d said Jeppe Kofod, a Danish MEP from the Socialists &amp; Democrats group.<\/p>\n<p>The EU already has tools to counteract Russian influence. The<a href=\"https:\/\/eeas.europa.eu\/headquarters\/headquarters-Homepage\/2116\/questions-and-answers-about-east-stratcom-task-force_en\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> External Action Service\u2019s East StratCom<\/a> task force works to root out and identify Russian disinformation, while the European Commission is due to publish a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/pro\/commission-selects-39-people-for-new-fake-news-expert-group\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">broader European strategy against disinformation<\/a> in April.<\/p>\n<p>But some MEPs say such tools are not enough. East StratCom has around a dozen staffers and \u20ac1 million in funding \u2014 a fraction of the estimated \u20ac1 billion that Russia spends on propaganda and disinformation, said Spanish European People\u2019s Party MEP Esteban Gonz\u00e1les Pons.<\/p>\n<p>East Stratcom needs \u201cadequate funding and increased personnel\u201d to do its job properly, argued David McAllister, a German MEP for the European People\u2019s Party.<\/p>\n<p>Some Euroskeptic MEPs disagreed and applauded state-sponsored Russian channels RT and Sputnik for offering them a platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am more concerned with EU propaganda than the clunky Russian version,\u201d said David Coburn, a U.K. MEP and member of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). \u201cRussia Today gave UKIP a voice when we couldn\u2019t get it on the BBC. Perhaps they are defending freedom. So thank God for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-needs-tougher-defense-against-russian-propaganda-meps\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p> [contf] [contfnew]         <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRMd3Tz2gX9xSa6CJyaOj2dokBVcrdaT4yY3R3RI7YmL18vCLZZ\"\/> <\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/&gt;Politico&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/h5&gt;_&lt;\/p&gt;[contfnewc]_[contfnewc]_&lt;\/body&gt;&lt;\/html&gt;\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe needs to bolster defenses against Russian meddling su..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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