The EU must make information warfare a core defense priority. With high-level summits, new initiatives, and massive spending commitments dominating headlines, the EU appears poised for a collective Zeitenwende in defense. Its exact contours remain u [...]
Announcements ASD at GMF is hiring! Applications are open for our Washington, DC-based research traineeship for Summer 2025. Apply here. Senior Manager for Europe and Fellow Vassilis Ntousas moderated a GMF discussion about how the EU should respon [...]
Foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) is a growing threat to democracies worldwide, with social media platforms as prime battlegrounds. In Europe, domestic and foreign malign actors engage in information operations aimed at underm [...]
Announcements With foreign information manipulation and interference posing a growing threat to democracies worldwide, how should the EU adapt? ASD Senior Manager for Europe and Fellow Vassilis Ntousas will moderate GMF’s virtual discussion on this [...]
Since its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Moldova has oscillated between East and West, or between closer ties with Russia or the EU. Last fall, the country faced this existential question once again. Moldovans went to the polls to selec [...]
Our Takes Belgian authorities’ recent raid of more than 20 addresses, including Huawei’s Brussels offices, as part of an investigation into alleged bribery of members of the European Parliament could bring more European leaders to recognize Huawei’ [...]
On March 13, 2025, police raided more than 20 addresses across Europe and sealed two offices in the European Parliament amid suspicions of bribery by Chinese technology giant Huawei. According to media reports, Huawei is suspected of using "items in [...]
The EU has made progress in bolstering its approach to geopolitics in accordance with a world that is increasingly adversarial and hostile to the EU's founding principles, but Brussels must still "move the needle more decisively" on security, defens [...]
Co-Managing Director David Salvo joined DW News to discuss recent negotiations around the war in Ukraine held in Saudi Arabia and what might come of them. The views expressed in GMF publications and commentary are the views of the author alone. [...]
After a contested July presidential election in which Nicolás Maduro claimed victory with 51% of the vote—amid allegations of irregularities, limited oversight, and too few international observers—Venezuela was thrown into turmoil. The Carter Center [...]
Announcements ASD has updated its Authoritarian Interference Tracker to include a sixth vector of Russia’s and the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) interference in democracies: kinetic operations. ASD defines kinetic operations as “the deliberate [...]
Foreign interference, or what the EU now calls FIMI (foreign information manipulation and interference), has a multifaceted toolkit. In addition to information manipulation, ASD has identified cyber operations, economic coercion, malign finance, and [...]