Its experts produce analyses and publications concerning the various threats coming from extremist ideologies, recommending measures and policies to counter these phenomena.

Dell’Arciprete previously worked on staff of an Italian MEP from right-wing Lega Nord, during which he participated in a tour hosted by Ateret Cohanim.

"[3]: 37 EFD is an advocate of adding Hezbollah of Lebanon to the European Union's list of terrorist organizations,[3]: 37  and has proposed a ban on television networks Al-Manar and Al-Aqsa TV by the EU.

[3]: 38 Scholar Farid Hafez maintains that the EFD hails from a politically conservative milieu, and its "fellows are located in the corridors of power", adding that "[t]heir experts produce knowledge for highly subsidized state institutions".

He states that EFD systematically produces works that follow a strategy of defamation and delegitimization of actors of the civil society of Muslims in Europe, by identifying them as radical and Islamist.

[9] Scholars Narzanin Massoumi, Tom Mills and David Miller argue that EFD actually "originates" from FDD, calling it the latter's "EU offshoot" and categorizing it among the "European-based neocon outfits... set up by US parent organisations".