FILE - In this Sunday, June 24, 2018 file photo French President Emmanuel Macron speaks with the media at the conclusion of an informal EU summit on migration at EU headquarters in Brussels. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)
With the European Union heading into a series of critical elections, French leader Emmanuel Macron sounded the alarm about foreign interference and called for the formation of an EU-wide body to protect voting from “cyberattacks and manipulations”.
The creation of such an agency to counter fake news is the first proposal of its kind and came in a 1,600-word essay translated into 22 languages and to be published as an op-ed in newspapers in each of the EU’s 28 members from the UK’s The Guardian to Madrid’s El Pais. Macron’s advisers said capitals had been alerted about the coming article.
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