U.S. Senator Calls Out EU for Curbing Free Speech Worldwide
19th December 2025
Republican Senator Eric Schmitt has accused European governments of enforcing what he described as a sweeping censorship regime at home and attempting to export it to the United States, warning that American free speech is increasingly being affected by regulatory decisions made in Brussels, London, and other foreign capitals.
In a letter sent to Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Sarah B. Rogers, published on X, Schmitt said, “European governments have imposed tyrannical censorship on their own citizens. Now, they’re trying to impose it on America.” In the letter, he urges the Trump administration to “sanction foreign actors—in the European Union and elsewhere—who aid and abet this censorship regime.”