For a little more than a year, a small group of eight officials with the EU’s European External Action Service (EEAS) has been working on a counter-propaganda strategy that reads like something out of the Cold War. The initiative was the result of a decision at a summit of the European Council in March 2015 which concluded that action was needed to “challenge Russia’s ongoing disinformation campaigns”.
There was talk of a European Russian-language TV station to go head-to-head with RT, Russia’s English language news and current affairs channel, but this never came to fruition – it was felt that, as …read more
Source: The Conversation