# European Elections and Russian Influence

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2118998994827513891
- Source account: [@ThierryBreton](https://x.com/ThierryBreton)
- Source language: French
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:15
- Published: 2026-11-07
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- Canonical URL: https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/ZGzLKxa8xO2P/transcript-of-european-elections-and-russian-influence

## Transcript

[0:00](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/ZGzLKxa8xO2P/transcript-of-european-elections-and-russian-influence) Yes, I'll say it again, we are on the eve of extremely important elections for us in France, but not the last ones, because there will be many important elections.

[0:08](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/ZGzLKxa8xO2P/transcript-of-european-elections-and-russian-influence?t=8) There are seven in the next eighteen months in Europe, and they are all crucial.

[0:12](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/ZGzLKxa8xO2P/transcript-of-european-elections-and-russian-influence?t=12) And we know that Russia has only one goal: to weaken Europe, to make sure, above all, uh, that the European project isn't strengthened.

[0:23](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/ZGzLKxa8xO2P/transcript-of-european-elections-and-russian-influence?t=23) And to do that, I know they don't really like us saying it right now, but we're going to say it anyway, to rely on far-right parties, because that is, after all, how they operate.

[0:32](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/ZGzLKxa8xO2P/transcript-of-european-elections-and-russian-influence?t=32) And those are the people Vladimir Putin uh, hopes to see take power, alone or with allies.

[0:39](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/ZGzLKxa8xO2P/transcript-of-european-elections-and-russian-influence?t=39) I was going to tell you—Everywhere in Europe. The United States play that game a bit too.

[0:43](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/ZGzLKxa8xO2P/transcript-of-european-elections-and-russian-influence?t=43) They actually write it down. No, they really do write it down, so it’s even clearer, since they’ve written it down.

[0:48](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/ZGzLKxa8xO2P/transcript-of-european-elections-and-russian-influence?t=48) And I don’t think that’s going to change, that the midterm elections two days ago changed anything at all, since once again, it’s the doctrine that is now known as the Donreau doctrine, which is therefore spelled out clearly in the national security document of December fifth, two thousand twenty-five,

[1:03](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/ZGzLKxa8xO2P/transcript-of-european-elections-and-russian-influence?t=63) that is, under the responsibility of Marco Rubio, which is American foreign policy uh, as far as Europe is concerned, to weaken Europe, to undermine its institutions and, to do so, to rely on far-right parties.