This report analyses the European digital regulation and its impact on electoral integrity. Through a comprehensive approach, it examines how the EU digital playbook will play a role in regulating the main challenges of our (digital) democracies: data protection threats, cybersecurity attacks, content moderation, online gender-based violence, the use of AI in electoral management, online electoral campaigns, and the use of AI-generated content during elections. 

While the organization of elections falls into European member state sovereignty, electoral authorities should develop collaborative mechanisms among European authorities to respond to digital threats. This report calls for electoral stakeholders to embrace the EU digital playbook through interagency collaboration to exchange experiences and capacities, among the EU electoral authorities and EU digital regulatory bodies, as well as to respond to the cross-border challenges that digital threats pose in democracies.