The former minister, Commissioner for the Internal Market from 2019 to 2024, helped birth the Digital Services Act (DSA) and campaigned for its implementation, which particularly angered Elon Musk.</p><div data-agora-connect-urls="{"baseUrl":"https:\/\/connect.lefigaro.fr"}" data-component="fig-content-body" data-context="was @visible" data-id="bGVmaWdhcm8uZnJfXzFmMGUwYjg5LTlhYTUtNjIwNi05NzdiLWE3M2ZlNmQ0YjcyN19fTmV3c0ZsYXNo" data-module="fig-body" data-premium="true">
<p class="fig-paragraph">Thierry Breton no longer has a visa in the United States. Washington announced on Tuesday, December 23, that it had imposed sanctions on the former European commissioner, as well as four other Europeans. <em>“ideologues”</em> perform for <em>"censor"</em> the Americans. <em>“The Trump Administration will no longer tolerate these blatant acts of extraterritorial censorship”</em>Marco Rubio hammered the head of American diplomacy <em>“a global censorship-industrial complex”</em>.
<p class="fig-paragraph">A new phase in the escalation between Washington and Brussels. This sanction is actually a direct consequence of the 120 million euro fine that the EU imposed on the social network. A fine that Marco Rubio had described as<em>“attack on all American technology platforms and the American people by foreign governments”</em>.</p>
<p class="fig-paragraph">But what is Thierry Breton doing there? The man has no longer been a European Commissioner since September 2024 - since 2019 he has been responsible for the Internal Market. For the Trump administration, however, he remains the one at the origin of the DSA and the proceedings against X, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, close to the MAGA atmosphere (“Make America Great Again”). For…</p>
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