Elon Musk urges end of EU following X platform penalty
In a series of posts on Saturday, Musk, who frequently accuses Brussels of imposing excessive regulations, argued that “EU bureaucracy is slowly smothering Europe to death.” He added, “The EU should be abolished and sovereignty returned to individual countries, so that governments can better represent their people,” calling the bloc a “bureaucratic Monster.” Musk, who also owns Tesla and SpaceX, has previously described the EU as a “giant cathedral to bureaucracy,” claiming that over-regulation suppresses innovation.
US officials reacted sharply to the fine. Secretary of State Marco Rubio criticized the ruling as “an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments.” Vice President J.D. Vance said the EU had targeted X for “not engaging in censorship.” US Ambassador to the EU Andrew Puzder also condemned the move, asserting that Washington “opposes censorship and will challenge burdensome regulations that target US companies abroad.”
European Commission Executive Vice President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy Henna Virkkunen defended the fine, stating that “deceiving users with blue checkmarks, obscuring information on ads and shutting out researchers have no place online in the EU.”
Meanwhile, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski reacted to Musk’s statements with a sharp retort, posting, “Go to Mars. There’s no censorship of Nazi salutes there,” alluding to accusations that Musk had performed the salute while celebrating US President Donald Trump’s second-term inauguration in January 2025.
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