European leaders erupt over US travel ban of officials involved in Digital Services Act

Published December 24, 2025 12:30pm ET



Foreign leaders are condemning the Trump administration for imposing visa restrictions on five Europeans whom Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused of trying to censor Americans under the European Union’s content moderation law.

Five people, including former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, whom U.S. officials labeled the “mastermind” behind the EU’s Digital Services Act regulating social media platforms, are now barred from entering the United States over what Rubio called “efforts to coerce American platforms to punish American viewpoints they oppose.”

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