How can EU elections be protected against foreign interference?

Is it possible for non-EU countries to affect the democratic processes and election integrity?
Parliament is set to call for a coordinated EU strategy against foreign interference, information manipulation and attacks on democracy, particularly from Russia and China, to protect the European elections and increase the EU’s resilience against such attacks.
Attacks on democracy are likely to continue in ever-greater numbers and to become more sophisticated in the run-up to the European Parliament elections, taking place on 6-9 June 2024. The coordinated EU strategy is going to addresses issues such as interference on online platforms, protection of critical infrastructure and strategic sectors, interference during electoral processes, covert funding of political activities by foreign actors and resilience to cyberattacks
MEPs also expect answers from the European Commission on how it plans to ensure that the existing tools against information manipulation and new initiatives, such as the defence of democracy package, will help protect the integrity of the 2024 elections.
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