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Oct 31, 2024 | 
securingdemocracy.gmfus.org | Bret Schafer |Krystyna Sikora |Etienne Soula |Vassilis Ntousas
Americans vote in this year’s consequential presidential election in an environment marked by growing threats, including the weaponization of artificial intelligence (AI), influence campaigns run by foreign authoritarian adversaries, and false election narratives that threaten to undermine faith in the US election system.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
securingdemocracy.gmfus.org | German Marshall Fund |Vassilis Ntousas
Few national contexts offer a more disturbing picture of Russian malign foreign interference than Moldova’s. As the country readies for critical elections on October 20, it also faces a barrage of Russian hybrid attacks of remarkable scale and intensity against its democratic core and European future. The stakes for defending against and enduring this onslaught could not be higher for the country and Europe as a whole.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
securingdemocracy.gmfus.org | Vassilis Ntousas |Louis Savoia
Italy has always been a prime target for Russian interference efforts. From cultivating malign financial ties and relationships with political elites to executing covert information operations, Russia has consistently sought to increase its influence within the country—and undermine Italian democracy in the process.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
latercera.com | Vassilis Ntousas |Baltasar Daza |Alexis Paiva Mack |Maria Gomez |María José Gómez
Por Vassilis Ntousas, cientista político y jefe de Operaciones Europeas en la Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) del German Marshall Fund en Bruselas. Aun cuando durante las elecciones europeas la gran historia fue el crecimiento de la derecha y extrema derecha, hoy, si las encuestas no mienten, Reino Unido va a vivir una victoria histórica por parte del Partido Laborista.
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May 8, 2024 | 
securingdemocracy.gmfus.org | Etienne Soula |Vassilis Ntousas
Often criticized for their lack of mettle in combatting foreign interference, European institutions have shown signs of increased combativeness in recent weeks. A whole bevy of cash-for-influence, election interference, and espionage cases have been prominently thrust in the public eye at EU and member state levels. However, with just a few weeks to go until the European Parliament election, real consequences must follow for this spike in attention and focus to be meaningful in the long-term.
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
securingdemocracy.gmfus.org | Vassilis Ntousas |Rita Lobo
Almost half a century after its Carnation Revolution that led to the end of the country’s dictatorship, Portugal’s political landscape is once again marked by the remarkable rise of the far right. Last Sunday’s election saw the ruling left-leaning Socialist Party (PS) defeated by the center-right Democratic Alliance (AD) by a narrow margin, leaving both parties nonetheless well short of a governing majority and with no clear path to govern.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
securingdemocracy.gmfus.org | Bret Schafer |Vassilis Ntousas |Etienne Soula |Rachael Wilson
This year’s US presidential primaries will determine who will lead the country come January 2025 amid growing autocratic threats to American democracy. Experts from the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund are monitoring and analyzing these threats which are arising from emerging technology to artificial intelligence, and impacting election officials, infrastructure, and more.
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Jan 11, 2024 | securingdemocracy.gmfus.org | Bret Schafer |Vassilis Ntousas |Etienne Soula |Rachael Wilson
This year’s US presidential primaries will determine who will lead the country come January 2025 amid growing autocratic threats to American democracy. Experts from the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund are monitoring and analyzing these threats which are arising from emerging technology to artificial intelligence, and impacting election officials, infrastructure, and more.
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Oct 20, 2023 | 
euractiv.com | Krystyna Sikora |Vassilis Ntousas
Poland’s recent election results mark a likely return of liberal democratic norms in the country and more constructive cooperation with the EU, however, not without challenges along the way, write Vassilis Ntousas and Krystyna Sikora. Vassilis Ntousas is the head of European Operations and Krystyna Sikora is a research assistant at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
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Sep 20, 2023 | 
securingdemocracy.gmfus.org | Vassilis Ntousas |Etienne Soula
In her last State of the European Union (SOTEU) speech for this Commission mandate, Ursula von der Leyen expectedly stayed mum on whether she intends to stand again. But it is difficult to take her address as anything but a carefully calibrated effort to lay the groundwork for a re-election bid. Compared to last year’s speech, this meant that her speech was perhaps less aspirational, but distinctly more political.
