Mr. Paolo Cesarini:

The rapid alert system was put in place in March of this year, less than two months before the European Parliament elections took place. It had the merit of creating links and connecting dots that had been completely separate and did not communicate between one another at the level of the different member states. Each member state has a different authority that deals with issues concerning electoral integrity and disinformation attacks. While it is true that the rapid alert system has issued just one alert, an increasing flow of information is being exchanged. This shows and demonstrates the usefulness of the tool. It certainly needs to be developed, especially in terms of agreeing common methodologies, discussing the thresholds for triggering an alert and having better ways of co-operating with platforms, particularly when disinformation leads to investigations into groups that co-ordinate their behaviour and, therefore, require the intervention of specialised authorities within the structures of member states.