Ukraine and Moldova are now candidate countries to join the European Union, an institution that for decades has given rise to different conspiracy theories, whether about its origins or its role today.
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As Ukraine and Moldova have gained EU candidate status, zoom in on conspiracy theories targeting the EU. The European Union, which was originally a project orchestrated by the Nazis, or even by the CIA: disinformation around this institution is not new, it is regularly reactivated, for example during the French referendum on the Constitution of the European Union in 2005, or in the context of Brexit.
It is not only the creation of the EU that generates conspiratorial theses, its role and its action today are also targeted. “Dictatorship” at the service of the pharmaceutical lobbies for some, the Union is even for others a political weapon whose goal is to lead European civilization to its destruction, via the “great replacement”, a well-known theory of the conspiracy and spread more widely in France this year by presidential candidate Eric Zemmour.
Aware of these attacks, the European Union has developed several tools to fight against disinformation of which it is not only a target, but above all a great playing field.
Conspiracy around the European Union is the 31st episode of Complorama with Rudy Reichstadt, director of Conspiracy Watch, and Tristan Mendès France, lecturer and member of the observatory of conspiracy, specialist in digital cultures. A podcast to be found on the franceinfo site, the Radio France application and several other platforms like Apple podcasts, Podcast Addict, Spotify, or Deezer.