The European Commission has set itself the goal to unveil a "democracy shield" by the end of this year, President Nicusor Dan said on Thursday, following his participation in the 7th meeting of the European Political Community.
The day before, the Romanian president attended the informal European Council, where he presented the Prosecutor General's report on the annulment of the Romanian presidential election.
"The novelty of this document is that it describes a mechanism that - put briefly - means websites on various apparently benign topics, such as spirituality, but for which the Prosecutor's Office has proven that the advertising was done by companies based in Russia, which link to some so-called news websites that are actually clones of respectable sites," the head of state explained.
He pointed out that the Community Executive has set itself as a goal to at least propose for debate by the end of this year a so-called "democracy shield" and that discussions on what this involves will probably take place in the coming weeks.
In Romania, Nicusor Dan said, "various institutions act in coordination and in cases of obvious disinformation, they simply take down the content, but we still have work to do on how to combat it".
The president explained that the Republic of Moldova was better prepared for hybrid attacks, "because it was expecting them, unlike Romania, which assisted Moldova even in 2024, but did not fathom that it would be targeted by an attack of such magnitude".
President Dan said that in the event of new elections, the November 2024 phenomenon will not be repeated, "but in general there is still a lot to do in the area of public communication and social networks."
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