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Confirmation hearings of the Commissioners-designate: Marta Kos – Enlargement
Marta Kos is self-employed, working through Kos Consulting and Coaching (2021-present), and a senior advisor at the Brussels consulting firm Kreab. From 2017 to 2021, she was Slovenian Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and Ambassador to Germany and Latvia (2013-2017). As president and co-founder of the Slovenian women's association ONA VE ('she knows'), Kos works to raise the profile of women experts in public debate. Kos has been engaged in Slovenia's political life as a vice-president ...
Kompas pro ověřování faktů: jak odhalit manipulaci s informacemi
Zavádějící informace mohou zmást každého z nás. Jak mylné informace – nesprávné informace bez špatného úmyslu –, tak dezinformace – vytvářené a šířené s cílem lidi oklamat – mohou znesnadňovat přijímání informovaných rozhodnutí. Díky rychle se vyvíjejícím technologiím, včetně „deep fake“ videa a audia, je až příliš snadné velmi rychle produkovat a šířit klamavý obsah. Mnoho z nás znepokojují jeho dopady: přibližně 85 % lidí na světě znepokojuje dopad dezinformací na jejich spoluobčany; 87 % respondentů ...
New European cybersecurity competence centre and network
On 13 September 2017, the Commission adopted a cybersecurity package with a series of initiatives to further improve EU cyber-resilience, deterrence and defence. A year later, the Commission presented a proposal for the creation of a European cybersecurity competence centre with a related network of national coordination centres. The initiative aimed to improve and strengthen the EU's cybersecurity capacity, by stimulating the European technological and industrial cybersecurity ecosystem as well ...
Enhancing the capabilities of CSDP missions and operations to identify and respond to disinformation attacks
With more and more disinformation campaigns targeting the EU and its institutions in recent years, Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) missions and operations have also been subject to such attacks. While this analysis did not identify systematic disinformation campaigns against the EU CSDP missions and operations, it does not imply that the CSDP missions and operations are not on the radar of the malign actors creating and disseminating disinformation. In fact, their activities are occasionally ...
Nuclear Safety outside the EU: Proposal for a new Council regulation
In the context of the multiannual financial framework (MFF) for the 2021-2027 period, the Council has adopted Council Regulation (Euratom) 2021/948 of 27 May 2021 establishing a European instrument for international nuclear safety cooperation complementing the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument – Global Europe on the basis of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community. Regulation 2021/948 complements, but is separate from, the new Global Europe Instrument ...
Measures to advance the realisation of the trans-European transport network: Integrated and faster project procedures
With the trans-European transport network (TEN-T) policy, the European Union seeks to develop a modern, efficient and climate-friendly network covering all transport modes. Despite the TEN-T's importance for the economy and society, and despite the binding timelines and targeted financial support, it risks not being completed as planned. This is partly due to complex administrative procedures linked to permit-granting for cross-border projects as well as broader regulatory uncertainty, often resulting ...
Mapping Fake News and Disinformation in the Western Balkans and Identifying Ways to Effectively Counter Them
Disinformation is an endemic and ubiquitous part of politics throughout the Western Balkans, without exception. A mapping of the disinformation and counter-disinformation landscapes in the region in the period from 2018 through 2020 reveals three key disinformation challenges: external challenges to EU credibility; disinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic; and the impact of disinformation on elections and referenda. While foreign actors feature prominently – chiefly Russia, but also China, ...
The Twitter activity of members of the European Council
Over recent years, the members of the European Council have, in a number of landmark declarations such as the Bratislava Declaration, pointed to the need to improve communication with citizens, as part of the process of building greater trust and confidence in the European Union and its institutions. As social media, and notably Twitter, have become an important part of politicians' communication strategy generally, this study looks specifically at how EU leaders in the European Council communicate ...
Policy Departments’ Monthly Highlights - December 2020
The Monthly Highlights publication provides an overview, at a glance, of the on-going work of the policy departments, including a selection of the latest and forthcoming publications, and a list of future events. regional development, cohesion policy, COVID19, WTO, budget control, budget, economy, international affairs, international law, Schengen governance, single market, European court of Auditors, energy.
Policy Departments’ Monthly Highlights - November 2020
The Monthly Highlights publication provides an overview, at a glance, of the on-going work of the policy departments, including a selection of the latest and forthcoming publications, and a list of future events.