📅 Enhancing European Sanctions Cooperation: Navigating Challenges and Seizing Opportunities - 20 November 2024, Brussels At the public panel session of the #SIFMANet Brussels Summit, speakers from DG FISMA and the UK’s FCDO will discuss how the EU and UK can strengthen their sanctions alliance through enhanced cooperation, while addressing key challenges such as implementation, enforcement, and engagement with third countries. 🕜 17:00-18:30 CET, 20 November 2024 📌 ACE Events, Av. d'Auderghem 22, 1040 Brussels The panel discussion will be followed by a light networking reception from 18:30-20:00. Register now: https://lnkd.in/ekHT-xSz Centre for Finance and Security (CFS) at RUSI | Royal United Services Institute | #sanctions
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David Jarvis CBE
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📽 Watch the London FIMI Forum's panel on building broader partnerships for collective responses Organised by the European Union Delegation to the United Kingdom, the session addressed the cross-border flow of disinformation, the role of funding for dissemination, the threat of "digital autocracies" and cyber mercenaries, and the importance of education and network exchanges to tackle #FIMI challenges. Joana de Deus Pereira Ph.D, RUSI Europe Senior Research Fellow, was joined by Justin Arenstein, Chief Executive, Code For Africa (CfA), African network for investigative journalism, and Tom Southern, Director of Special Projects, Centre for Information Resilience, UK. Watch the recording here:
Building global partnerships to counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI)
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📅 Watch live: London FIMI Forum - 14 October | Organised by the European Union Delegation to the United Kingdom Our Senior Research Fellow Joana de Deus Pereira Ph.D will discuss how to build broader partnerships for collective responses against foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI), starting at 12:00 CET. Joana will be joined by Justin Arenstein, Chief Executive, Code For Africa (CfA), African network for investigative journalism and Tom Southern, Director of Special Projects, Centre for Information Resilience, UK. #FIMI #Resilience
Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) has become an increasingly serious challenge for today’s democratic societies, especially as over one and a half billion people have voted or are preparing to vote in 2024. This highlights the urgent need to protect democracy. The fourth edition of the London FIMI Forum, organised by the EU Delegation to the UK, directly addresses these pressing concerns. With such a significant portion of the global population participating in elections, safeguarding democratic processes from foreign interference has never been more critical. The goal of the London FIMI Forum is to foster dialogue and coordination between key EU partners, including the UK. It will delve into practical tools to the address threat FIMI poses to the democratic process and will examine how new partnerships can generate collective responses to its evolving nature. By bringing together policymakers, researchers, experts from different associations, and other like-minded partners, the forum aims to strengthen cognitive security and assess the potential for global cooperation against foreign interference. #LondonFIMIforum
Foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) as a global threat
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📅 How can we build broader partnerships for collective responses against foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI)? Our Senior Research Fellow Joana de Deus Pereira Ph.D will discuss this challenge at the European Union Delegation to the United Kingdom's conference on 14 October - watch it online. For the panel discussion starting at 12:00 CET on 14 October, Joana will be joined by Justin Arenstein, Chief Executive, Code For Africa (CfA), African network for investigative journalism and Tom Southern, Director of Special Projects, Centre for Information Resilience, UK. #FIMI #Resilience
The London FIMI Forum kicks in on Monday. 14 October. We are excited to welcome many of you in person. For those unable to attend or to travel, we will live-stream our proceedings. With over one and a half billion people voting in 2024, this year we will focus on the threat Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) poses to the democratic process. Joining this first discussion are Filip Grzegorzewski, European External Action Service, Jonny Hall, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Laura Brincourt, VIGINUM, France, Vukosava Crnjanski, Centre for Research, Transparency and Accountability, Serbia and Kenddrick Chan, LSE IDEAS. While the war continues to devastate Ukraine, we discuss how information manipulation is weaponised on the battlefield with Daryna Harib, Centre for Countering Disinformation of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine and Professor Andrew Wilson, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies. In 2023, we discussed collective responses in the G7 framework. This year we look at the potential of new partnerships with Justin Arenstein, Code For Africa (CfA) Africa, Joana de Deus Pereira Ph.D, RUSI Europe and Tom Southern, Centre for Information Resilience, UK. In a first for the London FIMI Forum, we partner with the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) leading the EU-funded Countering Foreign Interference (CFI) project delve into FIMI threats the point of view of traditional defence. Joining this discussion are: Dr. Nad’a Kovalčíková, EUISS, Sabrina S., NATO, Carrie Goux, U.S. Department of State and Margarita Akhvlediani, GO Group Media / JAMnews, Georgia.
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📯 Last week, the #SIFMANet team visited Budapest to discuss sanctions implementation in Hungary, including at a policy roundtable organised with the Egyensúly Intézet // Equilibrium Institute of Budapest - learn more about our findings and meetings below 👇
🇭🇺 This week, the #SIFMANet team visited Budapest to discuss sanctions implementation in Hungary. From the presentation on cryptocurrencies and sanctions evasion at the informal #RELEX meeting, a lecture on how to defend democracy from malign finance at the Corvinus University of Budapest to the policy roundtable, organised with the Egyensúly Intézet // Equilibrium Institute of Budapest - it was a busy week! See our main takeaways 👇 🇪🇺Streamlining implementation: The institutional framework could be more centralised, as firms currently have to interact with several authorities. More support to interpret EU regulations would also help firms’ compliance efforts. 📯 Upping awareness-raising: Authorities share information via interest groups and deliver trainings, but more could be done to increase the sanctions expertise of industry, especially among SMEs. 🤝Customs challenges: The regional coordination agreement between the Baltic states, Poland and Finland to strengthen and harmonise customs operations has also led to a redirection of flows that Hungary now must face. 🛑 Technology and data needs: Lack of automatic tools to monitor sanctions violation risks and increased manual workload pose capacity issues both in the public and private sectors, especially in saturated customs agencies. 👉Stay tuned for our country report to learn more and sign up for the SIFMANet Sanctions Brief to stay up today with our work: https://lnkd.in/eggvH8WN Tom Keatinge | Gonzalo Saiz | Vlada Yaremenko | Balázs Gyimesi | Emil Dall | Olivia Allison
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📅 Mark your calendars! 📣 The Centre for Finance and Security (CFS) at RUSI and RUSI Europe are thrilled to announce the third #SIFMANet Summit in Brussels, taking place on 20-21 November 2024! 🤝 The #sanctions summit will feature expert workshops and a dynamic panel discussion open to all attendees. 👉 Registration for the panel discussion will be open soon – stay tuned for details! #SIFMANet #Sanctions
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“What IS-K is after is the media exposure. Why? Because another thing that’s changed in recent years is that IS lost its big donors,” Dr Antonio Giustozzi, Senior Research Fellow – Terrorism and Conflict told Sky News. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/eR_dwFnV
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“If it turns out that the knife attack in Solingen was organised in advance and there is support and some kind of cell in the background, it means that Isis is struggling to carry out more attacks like the Crocus concert hall,” Dr Antonio Giustozzi, Senior Research Fellow – Terrorism and Conflict told Finnish public broadcaster Yle. Read the full article here (in Finnish): https://lnkd.in/eyva66iH
Tutkija: Isisissä itsevarmuus on kasvussa ja liike näyttää vetävän puoleensa nuoria
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"Without a coordinated approach at national, EU, and international level, any new anti-money laundering package risks of having limited impact. And in a Union which is only as strong as its weakest link, AML deficiencies leave countries prey to money launderers and threat actors alike, reducing the security of the EU as a whole," writes Maria Nizzero, Research Fellow, Centre for Finance and Security (CFS) at RUSI, in her latest commentary. Read the full commentary about the new EU AML pakcage here: https://lnkd.in/e8hGh-vn #AML #AMLA #EU
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📣 RUSI Europe is delighted to announce that our Senior Research Fellow, Joana de Deus Pereira Ph.D, has been appointed to the United Nations Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights & impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination. Watch the appointment at today's 38th Meeting - 56th Regular Session of the Human Rights Council here: https://lnkd.in/eYgkCzrR Read more about Joana's work: https://lnkd.in/eyzkvBF2
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