Euro-Elites Focus on Minneapolis While Brussels Itself Meddles in Elections, U.S. Report Finds

 In a stunning display of upside-down priorities, the Eurocrats in the European Parliament in Strasbourg this week chose as their marquee debate topic “state violence in Minneapolis and the rule of law in the United States.” That’s right: unelected commissioners and liberal MEPs spent valuable time critiquing America’s justice system while ignoring evidence of Brussels’ own raw political interference across the continent.

It was noted by conservative observers — including leaders from outside the U.S. — that the European political establishment refuses even to debate evidence of its own machinations. Meanwhile, right-wing voices in Europe are seething that Brussels’ political police are pointing fingers at America while trampling on democratic norms at home.

Last week, the Republican-controlled U.S. House Judiciary Committee released a sweeping interim staff report on the so-called Foreign Censorship Threat, documenting how the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) has been leveraged as a de facto censorship machine and an election-meddling tool.

The 160-page investigation found that EU regulators — notably staff of unelected Commission bureaucrats — held hundreds of closed-door meetings with American tech platforms and digital services companies, pushing them to over-moderate content deemed “disinformation” by Brussels. These companies face penalties up to six percent of global revenues if they don’t comply

Republican members argue that enforcement of the DSA has gone far beyond regulating illegal content — targeting core political speech on topics like migration, pandemic policy, and cultural issues, and pressuring platforms to alter global content policies to reflect Brussels’ preferences.

Last December, Brussels slapped a €120 million fine on X — a move seen by many critics as punitive and politically motivated.

The Judiciary Committee’s interim report asserts that since the DSA took effect in 2023, EU institutions have actively tried to influence at least eight national elections — including two in the Netherlands, two in Ireland, plus France, Romania, Slovakia, and even Moldova, which isn’t an EU member at all.

These alleged interventions did not take place in closed societies but in democratic nations where voters were supposedly free to choose their leaders. Yet Brussels’ “disinformation risk workshops” and regulatory interventions have raised alarms in conservative capitals from The Hague to Dublin.

So while European parliamentarians indulge in grandstanding against American law enforcement and democracy, many of the same institutions are now accused of:

• Pressuring U.S. tech companies to reshape their platforms’ speech codes to suit EU political goals;

• Seeking to shape election narratives across multiple European nations;

• Threatening massive fines and regulatory reprisals against dissident speech.

Meanwhile, debate on this very evidence was blocked in the European Parliament itself — a stunning silence on a story implicating Brussels in politically charged censorship at home and abroad.

U.S. conservatives — from Capitol Hill to commentators in the press — see this as more than a bureaucratic spat. It’s a clash over the future of free speech, national sovereignty, and democratic self-government.

If Brussels insists on exporting its censorship regime under the banner of safety, critics argue, Washington may eventually have to push back — not just for Americans’ rights, but for the liberty of free peoples across the West.

Brussels should stop lecturing America on rule of law while its own institutions are accused of steering elections, weaponizing speech laws and smothering open discourse. The free world’s defenders must call out the hypocrisy and stand firm for true democratic freedoms.