Voice of Europe network and payments to politicians ahead of EU elections, 2024
Reportedon one origin only: 1 distinct origin, 1 tied to no party.
The dataset records the 2024 continuation of the Voice of Europe network, which it says paid anti-establishment politicians to influence European Parliament elections, until it was shut down in March 2024. It codes the incident as influence operation, apparent goal compromise domestic / EU politics; disrupt (military) aid to Ukraine, target politician(s), location Germany,Belgium,France,Czechia,Netherlands; the dataset records it as running from January 2024 to 2024-03-31, and the date shown is the start of that period. The Leiden dataset includes incidents linked to Russia by officials, incidents fitting a pattern of officially suspected attacks, or incidents backed by journalistic evidence, and its authors call the data speculative and subject to change.
- When
- 1 January 2024
- Where
- Germany, Germany
- What
- other
- Acting party
- Government of Russia
- Attribution
- Attributed by independent sources. Listed as a Russian operation in the Leiden University Russian Operations Against Europe dataset; the dataset and the source it cites link the incident to Russia.
- In the record
- Published 2026-10-28 06:42 UTC · revision 1 · leiden
Sources
- Evidence Leiden University, Russian Operations Against Europe dataset
- Evidence Denik N
History
| When | Field | From | To | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-28 06:42 UTC | status | null | reported | P1 leiden: researched from cited sources and graded by the one rule |
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The War Record, "Voice of Europe network and payments to politicians ahead of EU elections, 2024", ev-20261028-r2ck, revision 1, https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261028-r2ck/