In the late afternoon of Wednesday 3 September, the US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee held a hearing in Washington on ‘Europe’s Threat to American Speech and Innovation’.
Throughout the lengthy hearing - which was still ongoing as we went to press - the U.S. administration launched attacks on the European Union, its member states, its legislation, the European Commission, and its officials of a kind rarely seen before.
US Congressman Jim Jordan, a Republican close to...