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The EU Commission has proposed reforms to its next long-term budget to ban dissent

Source: Martin A. Armstrong on X This is designed to impose financial costs on governments allowing the people to vote for organizations like the AFD.…

freespeechnewsNovember 3, 2026

Europe Government Censorship News Abroad Surveillance, Privacy & Digital Identity

EU Council advances chat control 2.0 scanning proposal

Source: Ken Macon on Reclaim The Net — The proposed fix keeps the machinery of mass scanning very much alive. EU’s Council is again pushing for…

freespeechnewsOctober 16, 2026

age verification window on smartphone held in hands

Censorship Government Censorship Surveillance, Privacy & Digital Identity

EU age verification used to enforce identify verification

Source: Paul Walsh on X — Ursula von der Leyen announced this week that everyone in the EU must use the official EU age verification…

freespeechnewsOctober 5, 2026

Europe

Dr. Friedrich Pürner: the undemocratic EU

Source: Dr. Friedrich Pürner, MPH on X — Apparently, democracy there means that the rules should be changed when the outcome doesn’t suit. Whoever extorts…

freespeechnewsOctober 2, 2026

Leipzig Airport, several planes on the ground

Europe Foreign Policy War, Foreign Policy & Information Control

Fake outrage coordinated: Leipzig attack

Source: Pascal Lottaz — The level of coordination is astounding. If this had been an attack where on the previous day a large part of…

freespeechnewsSeptember 28, 2026

Europe Government Censorship News Abroad Press Freedom

One question, Ms. Fahimi: Does the union still stand by press freedom?

Source: Paul Schreyer on Multipolar— The union leadership should campaign for the lifting of EU sanctions against the German journalist Hüseyin Dogru. "Everyone" is…

freespeechnewsSeptember 19, 2026

Censorship Europe Foreign Policy News Abroad

Freedom of speech dying a slow death in Europe

Source: Claudio Grass on Forum Geopolitica — From the Digital Services Act to economic sanctions, by way of hate speech laws, Europe has quietly erected…

freespeechnewsAugust 7, 2026

Consumer Protection Europe News Abroad Privacy Laws

Why the EU’s so-called chat control law has privacy experts up in arms

Source: Adnan Leal on Euro News— The rules have been dubbed "Chat Control" by critics, who warn of mass surveillance. "It’s a big breach…

freespeechnewsJuly 30, 2026

Censorship Europe News Abroad Privacy Laws

EU Parliament breaks its own rules to force chat surveillance

Source: Mario ZNA on X — A new EU law would allow authorities to read every private message with no limits. Europe is getting worse…

freespeechnewsJuly 22, 2026

Europe News Abroad Privacy Laws

The EU is planning to block VPNs & require a passport to access the internet

Source: @CryptoTice_ on X — A digital passport. For the internet. Enforced by blocking the tools that protect your privacy. The trajectory to now looked…

freespeechnewsJuly 22, 2026