MIL-OSI Europe: Written question – German version of Russia Today back on X despite EU sanctions – P-000391/2025

Priority question for written answer  P-000391/2025
to the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Rule 144
Bart Groothuis (Renew)

On 23 January 2025, EUvsDisinfo, a project of the European External Action Service’s East StratCom Task Force, published a news item about Russian interference in the German elections, claiming that the German version of Russia Today (RT DE) is back on the social media platform X[1]. Russia Today is subject to EU and international sanctions, which means that the EU has suspended all broadcasting of it (including the German and other European language versions) in the EU or directed at the EU[2].

• 1.Is RT (DE) accessible on X to users in the EU, or to users outside the EU but still directed at the EU, thus constituting a violation of EU sanctions?
• 2.What measures can and will the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy take to respond to this violation and to bring it to a halt, and to what extent can she urge our international partners to take similar action?
• 3.What consequences will X face for violating EU and international sanctions by allowing RT DE back on its platform?

Submitted: 29.1.2025

• [1] https://euvsdisinfo.eu/another-election-another-kremlin-interference-attempt/.
• [2] https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2022/03/02/eu-imposes-sanctions-on-state-owned-outlets-rtrussia-today-and-sputnik-s-broadcasting-in-the-eu/.