nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/f034b1513d9eebaa DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 251120s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/f034b1513d9eebaa doi eng 342 23 Feisel, Franca Maria Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-6001-1428 The European Democracy Shield and Its Whole-of-Society Approach - From the Bottom‑Up, but Short on Concrete Action Feisel, Franca Maria Verfassungsblog 2025-11-20 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 12 November, the European Commission published the long-awaited European Democracy Shield. While the EDS’s embrace of a bottom-up approach arguably marks a meaningful shift in how the Commission conceives democratic resilience, the initiative itself does little to translate this rhetoric into meaningful action. If Member State cooperation on tackling information manipulation and interference remains voluntary, civil society involvement largely consultative, and several flagship initiatives end up being merely symbolic, so will the EDS’s ambitious and inclusive language. CC BY-SA 4.0 EU European Centre for Democratic Resilience European Democracy Shield Whole-of-Society Approach (DE-588)10290611-7 gnd EU Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-european-democracy-shield-whole-of-society/ raw object