By Niamh Harris of The People’s Voice on December 7, 2025
Elon Musk has called for the EU to be “abolished” and sovereignty returned to the individual countries.
Musk made the comments in a series of posts on X after the bloc fined his social media platform €120m ($140)
He was furious at the officials who handed out the punishment for transparency breaches and threatened to pursue each country individually.
The billionaires response comes amid growing frustration within the White House about the direction of the European Union.
The Telegraph reports: On Thursday night, Donald Trump’s administration released a national security strategy that accused the EU of undermining “political liberty and sovereignty”, censoring free speech and encouraging uncontrolled migration.
The 33-page document stressed that Washington would make “ensuring fair treatment of US workers and businesses” a key plank of its dealings with the bloc.
Sir Keir Starmer has taken pains to endear himself to Mr Trump, and any move to undo Brexit, as some Labour MPs now suggest, could endanger that relationship.
The White House had applied significant pressure on EU leaders to drop the flagship case against X, launched under the bloc’s new content moderation law, the Digital Services Act.
In response to rumours of the ruling, JD Vance, the vice president, said on Thursday that the EU should be “supporting free speech, not attacking US companies over garbage.”
But after a two-year investigation, the European Commission ruled against X on three counts.
It found that the ‘blue tick’ verification badge was deceptive as users could simply pay for the privilege, that there was a lack of transparency over advertisers on the site, falling foul of safeguards against scams and illegal promotions, and that researchers were denied access to what should be public data.
The first change incurred a €45m fine, the second €35m and the last €40m. A Commission spokesman said the penalty was for a breach “committed by X” but addressed to the “entire corporate structure”, which the bloc’s officials had previously said consists of three entities with Mr Musk “at the top”.
Mr Musk, the wealthiest man in the world, said: “The ‘EU’ imposed this crazy fine not just on [X], but also on me personally, which is even more insane! Therefore, it would seem appropriate to apply our response not just to the EU, but also to the individuals who took this action against me.”
Trump officials piled in with criticisms. Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State wrote on X that the fine was “an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments. The days of censoring Americans online are over”.
Christopher Landau, his deputy, suggested the ruling would encourage Washington to further disengage from its role in the Nato military alliance. He said that the “nations of Europe cannot look to the US for their own security at the same time they affirmatively undermine the security of the US itself through the (unelected, undemocratic, and unrepresentative) EU”.
