Setting up a Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield, and defining its responsibilities, numerical strength and term of office

AdoptedReference B10-0216/2024

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How the groups voted

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The Left46

25107460%

S&D136

1250011100%

Greens/EFA53

The European Parliament adopted by 441 votes to 178, with 34 abstentions, a decision on setting up a special committee on the European Democracy Shield, and defining its responsibilities, numerical strength and term of office.Member recalled that foreign interference constitutes a serious violation of the universal values and principles on which the Union is founded, such as human dignity, freedom, equality, solidarity, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, democracy and the rule of law. Evidence shows that malicious and authoritarian foreign state actors and malicious non-state actors are using information manipulation and other tactics to interfere in democratic processes in the Union…