Overview
- Musk wrote on X that the European Union should be eliminated and sovereignty returned to individual countries to better represent their people.
- He described EU bureaucracy as “slowly strangling Europe” and questioned what the United States is protecting the bloc from.
- Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chair of Russia’s Security Council, replied “Exactly” to Musk’s post, signaling agreement.
- An European Commission spokesperson said X was fined €120 million under the Digital Services Act.
- In July, the Commission warned X over DSA violations involving advertising transparency and researcher access with possible penalties up to 6% of annual global turnover.