{"id":194620,"date":"2025-12-25T16:39:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T16:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-eu-could-respond-to-unjustified-us-visa-bans-official-says-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T16:39:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T16:39:22","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-eu-could-respond-to-unjustified-us-visa-bans-official-says-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-eu-could-respond-to-unjustified-us-visa-bans-official-says-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: EU could respond to \u2018unjustified\u2019 US visa bans, official says – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

European leaders including Emmanuel Macron accused Washington of \u2018coercion and intimidation\u2019. Key US politics stories from Wednesday 24 December
The EU could \u201crespond swiftly and decisively\u201d against the \u201cunjustified\u201d US visa bans on five Europeans involved in combating online hate and disinformation, a European Commission spokesperson has said.
European leaders including Emmanuel Macron<\/a> accused Washington of \u201ccoercion and intimidation\u201d, after the visa ban on the figures who have been at the heart of campaigns to introduce laws regulating American tech companies.
Justifying the visa bans, the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, wrote on X: \u201cFor far too long, ideologues in Europe have led organised efforts to coerce American platforms to punish American viewpoints they oppose. The Trump administration<\/a> will no longer tolerate these egregious acts of extraterritorial censorship.\u201d
Germany, Spain, the UK and a chorus of EU officials joined the French president in condemning the move.
The visa bans were imposed on Tuesday on Thierry Breton, the former EU commissioner and one of the architects of the bloc\u2019s Digital Services Act (DSA), and four anti-disinformation campaigners, including two in Germany and two in the UK.
The DSA is seen by Washington as a form of censorship while European leaders say the regulations are necessary to control hate speech, but the row threatens to become part of a far wider existing cultural and political conflict between Donald Trump\u2019s administration and Europe.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The US justice department said on Wednesday that it has been told by federal prosecutors in Manhattan and the FBI that they have uncovered more than a million more documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> case and processing these for release could take \u201ca few more weeks\u201d.
Over the weekend there was outrage from victims and legal threats <\/a>over the limited initial Epstein files release despite the law requiring full disclosure of all Epstein files by 19 December.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration<\/a>\u2019s efforts to reduce federal homeland security funding, including for disasters, for states that do not comply with immigration enforcement policies.
US district judge Mary McElroy of Rhode Island, a 2018 Trump appointee, ruled on Monday that the latest case was \u201canother example\u201d of the Trump administration tying state and local government assistance to its immigration crackdown.
The Department of Homeland Security has indicated it would appeal against the latest decision.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The Trump administration<\/a> is deploying 350 national guard troops to New Orleans<\/a> ahead of the new year, launching another federal deployment in the city at the same time that an immigration crackdown led by border patrol is under way.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Palau will take up to 75 migrants from the US in return for additional aid<\/strong>, after the tiny Pacific Island nation signed a memorandum of understanding with Washington<\/a> on transfer of third-country nationals.
Democratic US representative Joyce Beatty of Ohio sued Donald Trump on Monday<\/a> to seek the removal of his name from the John F Kennedy Center for Performing Arts<\/strong> in Washington DC. A White House spokesperson said in a statement that Trump had \u201cstepped up and saved the old Kennedy Center\u201d.
Donald Trump\u2019s recent claims that the US should keep Venezuelan oil from seized tankers are part of a broader belief in rightwing \u201cresource imperialism\u201d<\/a>,<\/strong> experts say. In recent weeks, the Trump administration has escalated pressure on Venezuela, invoking drug-trafficking claims. Critics have compared the offensive to the Iraq war, citing a familiar mix of regime-change rhetoric, security pretexts and oil interests.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened Tuesday 23 December<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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