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EU Observer (16 June 2026)

Anton SHEKHOVTSOV

From the accounts of commission insiders, the European Democracy Shield has already been softened to avoid antagonising Washington 

Next year, several EU countries representing more than half of the EU population are due to hold national elections by direct popular vote: Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, and Spain.

Considering today’s geopolitical upheavals and recalibrations of the international alliances, it would hardly be an exaggeration to assume that foreign interference will mark the conduct of the elections in all of the above-mentioned countries.

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