🇪🇺🇺🇸As we have begun yet another geopolitically challenging year, it is important to remind ourselves lessons from 2024 to prepare for and withstand foreign interference in democracies in an effective way.

Our 2024 EUISS Chaillot papers must reads to close some chapters and open new ones. Stay tuned! 👇👇👇

The "year of democracy" may have passed, but foreign interference will present itself again in future elections. Here is what 🇪🇺can learn from the interference attempts in the 🇺🇸 election and how to strengthen its own c-FIMI operations. My latest w. Naďa Kovalčíková, PhD. for EU Institute for Security Studies:

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💡Spotlight on Foreign interference in the recent US elections. We analysed and identified lessons with Giuseppe Spatafora 👇👇 Will we learn from them?

🥳Read our top analyses from 2024!

New tech offers benefits, but we must also address the risks, warns Naďa Kovalčíková, PhD. in Data News FR. #Deepfakes, for example, show how AI can be misused. More on #AI-driven disinformation: iss.europa.eu/publications/c…

#Russia’s hybrid campaigns pose an increasing threat to the 🇪🇺. Subversive efforts by Russian agents on both sea & land are no longer confined to a grey zone. We convened a roundtable last week to propose new ideas on how the EU can better anticipate, counter & deter this threat.

⏰ #JobAlert: Only 1 day left to apply for the position of Project Officer leading two EU-funded projects in the domain of #CyberDiplomacy. 📌 More information on our website: iss.europa.eu/about-us/oppor… #EUJobs

EUISS was at #PSDF Paris Defence and Security Forum 2025 to discuss our upcoming research to unpower Russia. Watch this space! Ondrej Ditrych

💥👥Join us for a discussion next Tuesday! We all play role in safeguarding democratic integrity against #FIMI

📅 TODAY: Our Naďa Kovalčíková, PhD. is joining AuthlibEU's online event to discuss the role of the EU in curbing foreign information manipulation and interference. How can the EU increase transparency and resilience against #FIMI? 📌 More info & registration: authlib.eu/combating-fimi…

👁️🧐 Your next discussion to view and report to read 👇👇👇 Stay connected and don't hesitate to reach out!

🧐Highly interesting NEW ANALYSIS on "Reversing the Privatisation of the Public Sphere" by Alvaro Oleart and Julia Rone 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

We're looking for our next trainees! 9⃣ positions available 🗓️ 10-month paid research traineeship 📍 Paris or Brussels ⏳Apply by 30 April, 12:00 CEST More info: iss.europa.eu/about-us/oppor… #eujobs #eucareers

Understanding #FIMI is a crucial skill for today's diplomats. Our Countering Foreign Interference project provided junior diplomats from the Western Balkans with a hands-on training on FIMI, disinformation & hybrid threats. Thanks to all participants!

“EU and other countries, including those in the Indo-Pacific, are countering #HybridThreats by exposing operations, sanctioning perpetrators or increasingly coordinating their efforts. But we can do more," Naďa Kovalčíková, PhD. said at #ESIWAdialogue 🤝 in collaboration with EU Institute for Security Studies

📸yesterday kicked off the #CFIDialogues2025, our yearly event on foreign interference & hybrid threats. Gathering EU institutions, partner countries, academia, civil society & tech, we're building resilience together. #FIMI

📢 The #CFIDialogues2025 wrapped up last week in Florence! 2️⃣ days focused on detecting and exposing foreign interference and strengthening the EU's capability for active defence. 👏 Thanks to everyone who contributed their knowledge, ideas & energy, and to our partner School of Transnational Governance.

Thank you for great cooperation, ESIWA_EU partners!