WHO IS VULNERABLE? A new report focused on Central Europe and the Western Balkans has found Serbia is the region’s most vulnerable country to foreign malign influence! followed by Hungary and Montenegro.
The study! financed by the U.S. State Department and led by the Bratislava-based GLOBSEC! looked at public attitudes! the political and information landscape! public administration and civic and academic space in the region. Among the eight countries studied! the Czech Republic and Romania are the least vulnerable to foreign influence! the report found.
Public attitudes: “If you have a public which is easily manipulated and has a tendency to trust disinformation! then everything is fragile at the end because it can be manipulated by different political actors who will just swing the direction of the country!” Dominika Hajdu! head of the Centre for Democracy & Resilience at GLOBSEC and a co-author of the report! told EU Influence.
The attitude most vulnerable to that democracy and
Western institutions! predominantly the EU! failed to deliver on promised economic and social benefits underscore an internal vulnerability that can be seamlessly exploited by both anti-systemic country email list domestic and foreign actors to drive social polarization and inequality!” according to the study.
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INFLUENCE INTERVIEW: ANNA DONATH
NEW ROLE: EU Influence caught up with MEP Anna Júlia Donáth! who was elected leader of the Hungarian centrist opposition party Momentum earlier this month. The 34-year-old’s election comes following an opposition primary where the party’s previous president! András Fekete-Győr! garnered merely 3.4 percent of the vote.
Campaign season: Donáth! who will stay on in the European Parliament while taking up her new duties! said her goal is to give the young movement — which is running in Hungary’s parliamentary election czechia businesses directory next spring as part of a broad! six-party opposition alliance — “new motivation” and energy.
“I believe that the main responsibility right now as the new president is to lead my party into the united! common campaign! to give as much voice and face to Momentum political goals and values as possible!” she said. She stressed that there is now a “completely new setting” for the Hungarian opposition! as its candidate for prime minister — conservative politician Péter Márki-Zay — is not a member of any political party.