{"id":21331,"date":"2025-12-24T13:37:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T12:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/24\/macron-and-eu-condemn-us-visa-bans-as-row-over-censorship-escalates\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T13:37:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T12:37:37","slug":"macron-and-eu-condemn-us-visa-bans-as-row-over-censorship-escalates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/24\/macron-and-eu-condemn-us-visa-bans-as-row-over-censorship-escalates\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron and EU condemn US visa bans as row over \u2018censorship\u2019 escalates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington accused of \u2018coercion and intimidation\u2019 after five Europeans behind campaign to regulate US tech giants targeted<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2025\/dec\/24\/free-speech-tech-us-relations-ed-davey-keir-starmer-uk-politics-live-news-updates\">UK politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The French president, Emmanuel Macron, and the European Union have accused Washington of \u201ccoercion and intimidation\u201d, after the US imposed a visa ban on five prominent European figures who have been at heart of the campaign to introduce laws regulating American tech giants.<\/p>\n<p>The visa bans were imposed on Tuesday on Thierry Breton, a former EU commissioner and one of the architects of the bloc\u2019s Digital Services Act (DSA), and four anti-disinformation campaigners, including two in Germany and two in the UK.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/dec\/24\/macron-eu-condemn-us-visa-bans-row-censorship-escalates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a093a27bf1290689ecc847775361b2905316dc40\/0_0_2500_2001\/master\/2500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c521f9b419e5b2dbe29ee56e74b8f895\" title=\"Macron and EU condemn US visa bans as row over \u2018censorship\u2019 escalates\" \/>Washington accused of \u2018coercion and intimidation\u2019 after five Europeans behind campaign to regulate US tech giants targeted<br \/>\nUK politics live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nThe French president, Emmanuel Macron, and the European Union have accused Washington of \u201ccoercion and intimidation\u201d, after the US imposed a visa ban on five prominent European figures who have been at heart of the campaign to introduce laws regulating American tech giants.<br \/>\nThe visa bans were imposed on Tuesday on Thierry Breton, a former EU commissioner and one of the architects of the bloc\u2019s Digital Services Act (DSA), and four anti-disinformation campaigners, including two in Germany and two in the UK. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington accused of \u2018coercion and intimidation\u2019 after five Europeans behind campaign to regulate US tech giants targeted UK politics live \u2013 latest updates The French president, Emmanuel Macron, and the European Union have accused Washington of \u201ccoercion and intimidation\u201d, after the US imposed a visa ban on five prominent European figures who have been at &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/24\/macron-and-eu-condemn-us-visa-bans-as-row-over-censorship-escalates\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Macron and EU condemn US visa bans as row over \u2018censorship\u2019 escalates<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21331"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}