Europe

President Donald Trump joined a long line of presidents who complained that the NATO countries fail to pay their fair share and therefore take advantage of the United States. In 2014, the European NATO countries agreed to a target of spending 2% of their GDP on defense by 2024. In 2014, only the United States, the U.K. and Greece were spending at least 2%. In a recent interview, NATO Secretary…

The European Union continues to double down on crushing free speech, and the U.S. State Department is having none of it.

France reportedly arrested a Big Tech CEO, took his phone, detained him for days and continues to restrict his travel. Here’s what he told independent journalist Tucker Carlson about the European Union’s crackdown on online speech.

A Canadian free speech advocate who has faced arrest in multiple countries came to the United States and praised the Trump administration’s stance against censorship.

BUDAPEST, Hungary – On Wednesday morning, the group EU-U.S. Forum held its spring conference and – with former Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller alongside – took aim at the rise of government censorship both in the United States and the European Union, an issue that’s also central to our mission here at the Media Research Center.

Free speech advocates directly confronted the European Parliament (EP) and pushed the pro-censorship body to make a massive course correction.

MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider and other free speech advocates exposed the insidious impact of a vague European censorship law from the capital of the European Union.

The creator of a social media platform with a billion monthly active users warned that the same country prosecuting him for speech on his platform pressured him to interfere in a European election. 

Vice President JD Vance warned radio and podcast host Glenn Beck that Americans should be concerned about anti-free speech moves abroad, predicting significant “friction” between America and other nations.

House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) is looking to protect speech both domestically and abroad.

Member of the Assembly of Deputies of Romania George Simion told Human Events Senior Editor Jack Posobiec what free speech on social media means to his campaign and his country. 

A major legacy media outlet discussed the massive issues at stake as the sword of Damocles hangs over Elon Musk’s X in Europe. The writer couldn’t hide her bias against free speech advocates. 

CNBC’s Mad Money host Jim Cramer may really be an inverted soothsayer, as yet another of his predictions went in the complete opposite direction. That’s probably what happens when your brain just happens to be screwed on backwards.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denounced supposed American authoritarianism while speaking in a country that does pre-dawn raids over internet posts. She quite literally seemed to forget where she stood.