Senior US diplomat calls EU policies bad for trans-Atlantic partnership

A $140 cardinal good connected tech tycoon Elon Musk's societal media level underscores however Europeans undermine U.S. policies adjacent portion demanding that the United States supply subject protection, 1 of the apical American diplomats wrote connected Saturday.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau joined Secretary of State Marco Rubio and different American officials successful criticizing the European Union's good connected Musk-owned X arsenic censorship. But Landau went further than Rubio by invoking broader ideological and strategical concerns.

Landau posted connected X that the EU's differences with the Trump medication connected galore issues undermine the thought of a concern with the United States contempt the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The EU's regulatory stance could wounded shared Western information and values, Landau wrote.

"When these countries deterioration their NATO hats, they importune that Transatlantic practice is the cornerstone of our communal security," Landau posted. "But erstwhile these countries deterioration their EU hats, they prosecute each sorts of agendas that are often utterly adverse to US interests and information ... This inconsistency cannot continue."

The X fine, announced connected Friday, is the archetypal important enforcement enactment nether the EU's Digital Services Act. European regulators said they cited X for a deceptive blue-check verification system, inadequate transparency successful advertizing records, and refusal to assistance researchers entree to nationalist data.

The disapproval from Landau, on with earlier objections by Rubio, U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr reflects Washington's concerns implicit the interaction of European integer regulations connected American companies.

Rubio and Carr said the good demonstrated bias against U.S.-based exertion firms, with Rubio calling it an onslaught connected the American radical by overseas governments and an enactment of censorship against Americans online.

Adding to the furor, billionaire entrepreneur Musk, erstwhile a adjacent state of President Donald Trump earlier a nationalist falling out, successful a Friday station connected the level called for the EU to beryllium abolished.

EU officials person said they are protecting users from deception, scams, and misinformation, and said X's presumption arsenic a U.S. institution had thing to bash with the determination to levy a fine.

The tensions are surfacing arsenic the Trump medication signals melodramatic shifts successful U.S.-Europe relations wrong the North Atlantic Treaty Organization arsenic it seeks to support unity amid broader geopolitical challenges.

While the Trump medication has pushed for accrued European defence spending, its attack has been marked by mixed signals toward NATO, ranging from disapproval of load sharing to uncommon moments of praise for allied initiatives.

Landau, the No. 2 U.S. diplomat, had antecedently questioned the request for NATO successful a June station connected X, which helium aboriginal deleted.