Surprise..... NOT! These fucktards take money from everyone to reach their ugly goals. And Putin and his intelligence services are known for this. I just hope this has some consequences. But I fear it will not.
Here in Italy they have been smarter... even if some parties received funds linked to "United Russia", they declared it was in the "pre-war" era, so unrelated to any criminal purpose.
I'm not sure if I like the idea of clever fascists. ;-) I just hope for you guys that Meloni gets nothing done as far as her fascist goals go.
Me neither, but it's a news of what happened yesterday when a minister had to face a motion of no-confidence (obviously they were confirmed) and used this justification.
Lesson learned: don't consider Italy a democratic country. It belongs more to middle east than to the EU. 🤣
That's a loaded statement.
All members of 💩FD are russian spies. The rumours were out for years and now we get acknowledgement. 👍
AfD, of course. Just a bunch of puppets and useful idiots.
They could learn a bit from the Austrian far-right. They simply weren’t investigated due to a technicality, and then successfully sued a bunch of people who claimed that they had received money from Russia, because those people couldn’t prove anything without the investigation.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In a letter obtained by POLITICO, leaders of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party pile pressure on a lawmaker to come clean regarding Czech media reports that he accepted €25,000 from a pro-Russian network that's trying to influence European public opinion ahead of the June EU election.
The letter urges the lawmaker, Petr Bystron, who is the AfD's foreign policy spokesman in the German Bundestag, to send a written statement to party leadership by 2 p.m. on Thursday detailing any involvement in the scheme.
“Europe is very vulnerable to Russian influence so we need to work harder on our resilience,” Jan Lipavský, the Czech foreign affairs minister, told reporters in Brussels on Wednesday.
Peter Stano, spokesperson for the European External Action Service, which drafts EU-wide sanctions at member countries' requests, said such processes are "confidential and not for us to comment or pre-empt publicly."
French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourné on Tuesday said France will push for European sanctions on those peddling disinformation to counter a growing Russian online threat to elections.
"Russia resorts ... to lies and manipulation of our public opinions, in particular by financing interference, promoting false media, and accusing Ukraine," Sejourné said at a press conference in Paris Tuesday.
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