The EU must step up efforts to counter Russian disinformation in Europe, MEPs have said in alarming tones.
"We are really in a state of war with Russia, by we I mean EU citizens,” Jaromir Stetina, a Czech centre-right MEP said on Tuesday (31 January).
"There are no bombs, tanks, missiles, but we are in a war, because this is a hybrid war, and disinformation is a part of this hybrid warfare," he said.
"This is a war that the Russian federation declared on us, the goal is to ...
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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.