There was no shortage of Orwellian moments at the European Union foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels on Monday (19 January), as leaders agreed to explore extraordinary measures to counter Russia’s “active propaganda campaign” – and then vowed that their response would not itself amount to propaganda.
“We are losing this information war – and yes, it is a war,” Linas Linkevicius, Lithuania’s foreign minister, told European Voice after the meeting. “[But] we are not talking about European propaganda – we are talking about countering propaganda.” By the following day, the European Commission had the message off-pat, with a spokeswoman saying that …read more
Source: European Voice
