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1. 🚨BERLIN MOVES TO LET REGULATORS RAID NEWSROOMS
Germany’s cabinet just advanced a draft Political Advertising Transparency Act that would empower the Bundesnetzagentur, the federal network authority under the Digital Services Act – to enter and inspect media newsrooms and digital platforms, according to the European Conservative. Regulators will now be able to do this without a prior court order in cases of “imminent danger.” The bill is presented as a simple transposition of the EU’s political ads rules, but it goes much further, directly hitting editorial operations and press freedom.
Germany’s draft legislation would add warrantless inspections tied to paperwork disputes, turning compliance into a pretext for on‑site raids of newsrooms and tech companies.
Experts in constitutional law warn that the proposed law “represents a disproportionate expansion of administrative powers.”
They continue, “They stress that searches and seizures are instruments typically reserved for criminal investigations and that their use by a regulatory authority—without prior judicial oversight—is particularly problematic when it may affect newsrooms protected by enhanced guarantees of press freedom and professional confidentiality.”
European governments continue to tighten their grip on speech across the continent. What was previously touted as censorship has shifted to a much softer-sounding word: “compliance.”
2. 🇫🇷FRANCES SHUSHES STATISTICS APP
A new French data‑mapping tool, “Où va ma France?”, is drawing fire from Green MP Sabrina Sebaihi, who has urged the Interior Ministry to ban it.
The app combines official statistics to create local scores for issues like insecurity, immigration, Islamisation, “de-Frenchification,” and wokeism, and shows them on interactive maps down to each municipality. As The European Conservative reports, the platform relies on public sources such as SSMSI and INSEE.
This should be understood as a further restriction on freedom of expression and on the use of data that is otherwise publicly available. “Où va ma France?”, which translates to “Where is my France headed?”, has reportedly been used by a wide range of people, including residents considering moving, individuals evaluating neighborhoods, and real estate professionals, to assess factors such as risk and quality of life.
It begs the question, why is the French government trying so hard to keep citizens from avoiding unfavorable areas?
🤐 EU TO ENFORCE SPEECH LAWS, PRESIDENT TRUMP WON’T BACK DOWN
The EU announced this week it is shifting from negotiating its controversial digital regulations to enforcing them, reigniting transatlantic tensions over the framework and undercutting hopes for a near-term compromise. This follows a USTR announcement in December that the US is considering whether to retaliate against the EU for continuing to enforce these costly regulations on American companies.
Speaking on the issue with the Financial Times, the EU’s competition Chief, Teresa Ribera, asserted, “we’re not going to undo our regulation just because you don’t like [it].” Ribera’s thinking, however, misses the crux of President Trump’s opposition to the DMA. The president opposes the digital framework not just because he doesn’t like it, but because it discriminates against American companies in particular and aims to boost the competitiveness of European competitors at their expense.
Ribera’s comments also indicate a critical miscalculation of Trump by the EU. The President is not one to back down from a conflict, economic or otherwise. Protecting U.S. interests and American companies from foreign exploitation was a defining pillar of Trump’s candidacy, and the President has consistently shown a willingness to prioritize wins for American workers in tough negotiations with the EU.
While the EU may not be able to “win” this fight with President Trump with escalatory tactics, Brussels still has a viable path forward. By coming to the table to negotiate, the EU can still strike a balanced deal with Washington and avoid a bruising trade war with the US that they can’t win.
ALSO IN THE NEWS:
- EU-US Forum: Even the threat of warrantless inspections chills speech.Germany’s proposal shows how EU digital rules are becoming tools of intimidation, not transparency.
- European Conservative: EU Agriculture Ministers Race Against the Clock on Mercosur Deal
- European Conservative: EU To Spend Billions Propping Up Activist Networks
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