EU needs to be less 'polite' in resisting Russian attempts to sway elections

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : In Moldova last month, pro-EU president Maia Sandu narrowly won re-election after a campaign which, the police say, saw more than $15 million in Russian funds deposited in the bank accounts of more than 130,000 Moldovans.
53% : These states are regarded in Moscow as its "near abroad" sphere of influence: impoverished Moldova, Georgia, both EU applicants, and member-state Romania.
34% : Among them: before June's European elections, co-ordinated attempts on social media to share targeted pro-Russian, anti-vaccine and anti-LGBTQ campaigns; fake reports in Poland that Poles would be drafted to fight in Ukraine; an anti-Semitic graffiti campaign using star of David stencils across Paris in an attempt to foster divisions over the Gaza war.

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