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The European Union’s ‘Woke Stasi Commissars’: Europeans Turned into ‘Second Class’ Citizens
Guy Millière
January 20, 2026

…The EU sanctions have resulted in grotesque consequences for both men. Their bank accounts in the EU have been frozen. They cannot use their credit cards. They have no right to enter EU countries. Baud is subsisting on the food stored in his house in Belgium…. According to one report, “[h]is ability to travel inside the EU was revoked. He cannot even return to his own country.” The French government, which sanctioned both men while providing no proof of guilt or affording them due process, has asked that the sanctions be extended to all EU member countries. While one might disagree with what the two men said and wrote, freedom of speech is, or should be, one of the fundamental principles of a democratic society, which France and the EU purport to be. READ MORE

DAILY WIRE Dutch Lawmaker Slams France, Spain, Italy For Blocking Terror Label On Iranian Revolutionary Guards After Spain, France, and Italy blocked a move to designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) as a terrorist organization, Dutch member of the European Parliament Bart Groothuis blasted the decision. The IRGC acts as the “praetorian guard” for the Supreme Leader of Iran, tasked with ensuring the regime’s survival by crushing any internal opposition. Reports indicate that IRGC and Basij forces used live fire against peaceful demonstrators and even raided hospitals to arrest injured protesters…Germany and the Baltic states are among the countries pushing for the European Parliament to designate the IRGC as a terrorist organization. Under EU rules, all 27 member states must agree for the designation to move forward.