In 2024, nearly half of the world’s population is heading to the polls. One of the biggest of these contests is the 2024 European Parliament elections from June 6–9, in which 366 million voters in the union’s 27 member states will elect 720 members of the European Parliament (EP). This year’s elections are taking place amid increasingly shifting geopolitical and technological landscapes. Now is the time for European countries and their partners to review and adapt the tools in their arsenals to combat malign election influence operations.
Understanding that countries can mount a strong defense of their democratic processes by continually learning from each other, this report offers snapshots of best practices for building resilience against election influence operations adopted by five different European countries—France, Sweden, Estonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Ukraine—since the last EP election in 2019.