Anders Fogh Rasmussen wants candidates to sign pledge agreeing to counter foreign interference.
MUNICH — Russia will use unprecedented means to disrupt the upcoming European Parliament election, former NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen warned on Friday.
“There is no doubt that Russia will be a major malign actor,” Rasmussen told POLITICO in an interview on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.
At the same time, it is “important to realize that other malign actors might have learned lessons from the Russian playbook, including China or Iran,” he said.
Rasmussen now runs a private consultancy and in 2016 became an adviser to Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko — a role suspended in the run-up to the country’s presidential election in late March.
The former NATO chief and ex-Danish prime minister said that efforts to meddle in the campaign will involve creating unrest by amplifying existing political divisions.
“It’s not an ideological war from Russia, it’s not a left-wing or right-wing oriented campaign, but the campaign aims at undermining trust and confidence and initiates chaos and instability,” said Rasmussen.
Rasmussen added that there will be efforts to spread disinformation by using “deep fakes” — doctored videos or audio recordings that make a person seem to say or do something that they never said or did.
But some European national governments are ill-equipped to counter those efforts, Rasmussen said.
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