Subscribe to the monthly newsletter → Western Balkans Watch and Warn: Serbia’s election uncertainty, regional tensions and late-summer information manipulation The prospect of early presidential and parliamentary elections is likely to intensify competition over political legitimacy and Serbia’s strategic direction.…
Anticipated flashpoint events likely to fuel disinformation narratives in the Western Balkans during July 2026, identified during June 2026 Subscribe to the monthly newsletter → Western Balkans Watch and Warn: Memory politics, institutional legitimacy and seasonal information manipulation July 2026…
He emphasizes that gradual integration should not be seen as a substitute for membership, but as a way to better connect reforms with the concrete benefits that candidate countries can receive before full accession to the EU. French Ambassador…
False claims often spread about what level of help asylum seekers are given while awaiting decisions on their application to stay in the UK. These details can be obscured by not explaining properly where asylum seekers get their support, or…
The Belarusian Investigative Center analyzed official statistics and calculated the number of suspects per 100,000 inhabitants among nationals, foreigners overall, and Ukrainian citizens. In Poland, the Czech Republic, and Germany, the countries that accepted the largest numbers of Ukrainian refugees,…
“Islam” or “Muslims” as a threat to “us” – this is the image that many people in Germany currently have. Why is this the case? One factor is misinformation, the Fact-Checking Service of the German news agency dpa reports The…
The ceasefire in the Middle East has brought a sense of relief, but it is still too early to say the conflict is nearing an end. The key question now is whether there will be progress in negotiations over the…
Sohlström said that disinformation campaigns, which are full of factual inaccuracies and out-of-context claims, aim to undermine reform efforts and the country’s path toward the EU Swedish Ambassador to North Macedonia Ola Sohlström, in an interview with Portalb.mk, reaffirmed…
In recent years, since the outbreak of the wars in Ukraine, Gaza, and Iran, a familiar pattern that has long circulated within the disinformation ecosystem has resurfaced: old footage, clips from video games, videos taken out of context, and AI-generated…
As countries in the region strengthen their cooperation and coordination, as well as coordination between NATO and the EU, the process increasingly becomes the subject of disinformation campaigns. Although Serbia considers itself to be under a security threat from several…