Initiative against Kremlin campaigns
Berlin, Warsaw and Paris plan to fight disinformation
February 10, 2024, 9:32 p.m
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Disinformation campaigns by Russia are a major problem for many countries. Now French Foreign Minister Séjourné has announced that Germany, Poland and France want to combat them. Above all, they rely on education.
Germany, France and Poland want to take joint action against Russian disinformation. French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné told the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” ahead of a meeting with his counterparts from the so-called Weimar Triangle. Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski will be received by Séjourné on Monday at Celle-Saint-Cloud Castle near Paris.
“We will transparently disclose the instruments of this disinformation. We will reveal attacks that have been committed,” said Séjourné, referring to Russian disinformation campaigns by the “FAZ” and a newspaper from France and Poland. “We have consistent evidence that there are also sleeper operations, that is, tools that can be activated at any time, particularly during an election.”
The Weimar Triangle brings together three of the most populous and militarily strongest EU members: Germany, France and Poland. The efforts to revive the format follow the change of government in Warsaw, in which former EU Council President Donald Tusk replaced the right-wing nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party. The main topics at the meeting of foreign ministers on Monday are the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine and the war between Israel and Hamas in the Middle East.