The House of European History opens its new temporary exhibition "Fake For Real – A History of forgery and falsification to the public". Views of the official opening ceremony, statements by Nicola BEER, Klara DOBREV, EP Vice-Presidents and Hans-Gert PÖTTERING, former EP President, and ribbon cutting. Views of ‘Real Floor Staff’ - performance by artistic collective K.A.K and "Tableaux vivants" by Blast Projekt. The footage is proposed for the purpose of providing information and/or education on the "Fake for Real" exhibition at the European House of History.

Brussels

opening ceremony

House of European History (T)

PÖTTERING, Hans-Gert (EPP, DE)

exhibition

fight against hate speech, populism, and fake news on social media (T)

BEER, Nicola (Renew, DE)

DOBREV, Klára (S&D, HU)

"Fake for Real": illustrative shots of the exhibition at the European House of History and statements

SOUNDBITE (English), Kl&#225;ra DOBREV (S&amp;D, HU), EP Vice President, And now here we are in 2021 and I have to say that I'm disappointed and I'm sad to see that the free market, the free competition, if I don''t bring us the view of truth and the rule of reasons. He's not simply talking down to us, but to me, this museum is always asking questions. And so the same happens with the fake news as well. It's so good to see that fake news is not something new. 

SOUNDBITE (English), Kl&aacute;ra DOBREV (S&amp;D, HU), EP Vice President, Democracy is one of the dearest assets we have and we have to protect it. And it is under attack right now. And exactly under attack byby mean that we thought it's going to save our democracy. So we all have to go through these exhibitions. 

<p>SOUNDBITE (English), Kl&aacute;ra DOBREV (S&amp;D, HU), EP Vice President, Every politician has to go through this exhibition and has to learn that what disinformation, what fake news has led into history. And it was always a disaster. It was always a tragedy. And we can never repeat it again. So let's start fight against it at the very beginning. [00:01:41][19.5]</p>

SOUNDBITE (English), Nicola BEER (RE, DE), EP Vice President, The exhibition provides us with an overview of historical instances of forgery and classification in all areas of life. In recent months, as we have all seen so clearly and often painfully, the Covid 19 pandemic has been the focus of the spread of false ideas or unverified fact that have in many cases resulted in traumatic consequences in the fight against the disease. 

SOUNDBITE (English), Nicola BEER (RE, DE), EP Vice President, This is why initiatives such at this exhibition 'Fake for real, a history of forgery and falsification' are needed as societal red signs to help citizens, discern real from fake and help that immune reasoning system to fight back those infective agents that could be damaging to democracy.

SOUNDBITE (English), Hans-Gert P&#214;TTERING, former EP President, Dear ladies and gentlemen. It's rarely a great pleasure to be here today in the house of European history. In the history, and we can see it here in the exhibition, we always have had forgery and falsification, but forgery and falsification is more dangerous today because we have  the new social media. They are useful, but we have to be careful what is true and what is not true. 

SOUNDBITE (English), Hans-Gert P&Ouml;TTERING, former EP President, And so we, as citizens, in our democratic countries, in the European Union, where we defend our principles, our ideals, our ideas and our visions, we have to be very careful that we can distinguish between what is true and what is not true. 

SOUNDBITE (English), Hans-Gert P&Ouml;TTERING, former EP President, Our future democracy, our legal state depends that we defend our liberal democracy and our values which unite us in the European Union: the dignity of the human being, freedom, democracy, the legal order and peace and hopefully solidarity and subsidiarity. Those are always the principles which we are defending. Thank you so much. 

Ribbon cutting by Klara DOBREV, EP Vice-President and Hans-Gert P&Ouml;TTERING, former EP President

Views of  &lsquo;REAL FLOOR STAFF&rsquo; - Performance by the artistic collective K.A.K in front of the House of European History.

Views of  &lsquo;REAL FLOOR STAFF&rsquo; - Performance by the artistic collective K.A.K in the exhibition.

Performance by the artistic collective "Tableaux vivants" by Blast Projekt.