European Election Campaign | Moscow wants to Disrupt

Russia tries to intervene in the European election campaign 

According to findings of European Intelligence Services. Efforts to support Russia-friendly or EU-critical parties via social networks or media such as the multilingual news channel RT are reported in recent management reports.

Especially young people are in the focus of influencing attempts. Also the meaning of the European parliament and thus also a vote is questioned. The European Parliament will be re-elected between 23 and 26 May.

At the same time, according to senior intelligence officials, it is stressed that Russian action is less visible than before the US presidential election in 2016 or the election in France in May 2017.

At that time in the US among other things hacked mails of the Democrats had been published to harm their presidential candidate Hillary Clinton . In France, the right-wing populist and pro-Russian candidate Marine Le Pen was even supported by Russian money.

The Moscow government dismissed the allegations on demand as groundless. Russia does not interfere with the European elections and does not intend to do so in other elections, the foreign ministry told the German press agency.