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We send this out weekly to keep you apprised of the most important political and policy topics in Europe as we continue to work toward our mission of exposing the EU’s radical agenda and the threat it poses to the US and Western Civilization.
1. 🌳 CLIMATE OVERREACH: EU MEMBER STATES GET RADICAL
If you are a business owner in Germany that fails to comply with a new “green agenda” legal framework you could lose your company entirely…
This new proposal by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Chancellor Merz’s Christian Democratic Union Party (CDU) threatens companies with direct state ownership if they are unable or unwilling to comply with the environmental regulations of the state, the federal government, and the European Union.
Companies are already punished for breaking environmental regulations with fines and other measures, but this new mechanism represents an extreme overreach of state power into the private sector.
It’s been pointed out that the proposal allows the state to intervene in the economy in ways such as:
Price controls Legal limits on business profits Forced transformations of ownership models into forms of “communal economy” Direct state ownership
How far is TOO FAR for the climate radicals?
Even members of the leftist SPD, who helped propose the measure, have admitted that these tactics go beyond what they’ve previously considered acceptable. And the legal justification? CDU parliamentary leader Dirk Stettner says the state should be allowed to intervene whenever there are “obvious” and “manipulative failures” in the market. That’s a definition so vague it could be applied almost anywhere.
Climate change and censorship measures are both increasingly being used as a catch-all rationale for sweeping state interventions, regardless of their legality. Aggressive overregulation from the European Commission recently imposed fines of €500 million and €200 million on Apple and Meta, respectively, under the Digital Markets Act.
This issue must be taken seriously. This encroachment is not only an issue for German companies but companies all over. It’s imperative that this overreach stop here.
2.🇫🇷 MIGRANT CRISIS IN FRANCE CONTINUES
A shocking new French study has shattered the pro-immigration narrative: mass migration is costing France up to 3.4% of its GDP.
New findings out of France show migrants aren’t working at the same rate as natives, and only 86% of their public costs are covered by the taxes they pay. The rest is made up for by the French taxpayers.
Despite EU claims that all immigration — including migration of those who cross borders illegally — is fiscally positive… France proves the opposite. France’s conservative National Rally party Vice President Laurent Jacobelli spoke out about this issue on X:
This finding comes on the heels of recent polling in France that found six in 10 French citizens felt that their freedom had declined under Macron’s leadership.
French citizens are being forced to simply hand over their hard-earned money to bureaucrats who give it away, all while their quality of life remains in a downward spiral.
📵 CENSORSHIP ON FULL DISPLAY: HOUSE RAIDS ACROSS GERMANY
Censorship in Europe is going from bad to absurd.
This week in Germany, police launched a coordinated series of house raids against citizens accused of insulting politicians online.
We’re not talking about threats or criminal conspiracy… just petty name-calling.
One retiree had her home searched for calling the Green Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck “a complete idiot.” Others were raided for labeling politicians as “drunks,” or simply expressing harsh opinions.
Under Germany’s increasingly authoritarian speech laws, these “insults” are treated as hate crimes, punishable by up to three years in prison.
Let that sink in: European police forces are kicking in doors over Facebook comments and tweets that hurt politicians’ feelings.
This is part of a much broader trend across Europe, where governments are increasingly criminalizing dissent under the banner of “combating hate.”
In practice, that means suppressing any speech that challenges the ruling class’ ideology — whether it be on immigration, energy policy, national identity, or anything else the bureaucrats would rather not debate. If you call out incompetence or corruption too forcefully, you’re no longer exercising your right to free speech, you’re committing a punishable offense.
If we’re not careful, that’s exactly where the rest of the West is headed. Thankfully, President Trump is standing in their way.
ALSO IN THE NEWS:
- European Conservative: EU Commission Hands €202 Million to Groups Linked to Hamas
- Breitbart: Trump Cooks NATO Freeloaders Spain: If They Won’t Pay For Defence, They’ll Pay Double Tariffs
- EU-US Forum:🚨The ban on @compactmag_ has been reversed.
- European Conservative: Von der Leyen’s EPP Pushes for ‘Transparency Registries’ for NGOs—While Condemning Budapest for the Same
- EU-US Forum:Free speech is in decline. The people aren’t being heard. And Brussels is running out of excuses.
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