The European Democracy Shield and Its Whole-of-Society Approach - From the Bottom‑Up, but Short on Concrete Action Feisel, Franca Maria Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-6001-1428 Text xx# 2025 Verfassungsblog 2025-11-20 eng
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 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 Feisel, Franca Maria EU European Centre for Democratic Resilience European Democracy Shield Whole-of-Society Approach EU 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-european-democracy-shield-whole-of-society/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/f034b1513d9eebaa 251120 10.59704/f034b1513d9eebaa Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)