Europe May Once Again Need America to Liberate it From a Tyranny of Its Own Making
by Geert Wilders
Guess what the main topic of debate at the European Parliament in Strasbourg this week is. It is what the Euro-elites consider the most concerning issue of the moment: “State violence in Minneapolis and the rule of law in the United States.”
This is a typical example of seeing the speck in your brother’s eye while ignoring the beam in your own. The European Union is criticizing the rule of law in America, while there are indications that Ursula von der Leyen’s European Commission has in the past two years actively tried to interfere in eight parliamentary and presidential elections on the European continent, including twice in my own country, The Netherlands.
That, however, is a topic not deemed worthy of discussion by the European political establishment.
Last week, the House Judiciary Committee of the U.S. Congress published a report about Europe’s decade-long campaign to censor speech. As part of its investigation, the House Committee issued subpoenas to ten American tech companies, requiring them to produce communications with foreign governments, including the EU.
The congressional report accuses the EU of aggressively using its so-called Digital Services Act (DSA) to pressure tech companies to remove social media content that the EU considers “disinformation,” which in practice has meant posts critical of the ruling European establishment.
Meanwhile, companies that do not comply with EU regulations are threatened with huge penalties. We have seen what the EU is capable of. Last December, X was slapped by Brussels with a staggering €120 million fine.
Guess what topic was off limits in the European Parliament this week? Indeed, Europarl was denied a vote on whether to debate the findings of the House Committee’s report or not.
The U.S. House Judiciary Committee thinks that in every European election since the DSA took effect in 2023, the EU has tried to censor speech. The House Committee fears this happened in The Netherlands (twice), Ireland (twice), France, Romania, Slovakia and Moldova.