France mocks US congress members over “secret” EU directive

The French Foreign Ministry ridiculed Republican US congress members for publicising a so-called “secret” EU directive targeting American company X.

A post from the ministry’s French Response account on X noted: “The EU’s 'secret order' was finally found 23 days after it was published on the commission’s website.” 

😱 the EU’s "secret order" was finally found 23 days after it was published on the commission’s website. https://t.co/qXcPEyaL83 https://t.co/ICwaTqh3AB

— French Response (@FrenchResponse) January 28, 2026

The ministry included a link showing the document was publicly available on December 5, 2025.

The statement appeared in response to a post by the Republican faction of the US House Judiciary Committee. The document was presented as a “secret EU censorship order,” in which the European Union allegedly fined company X for implementing an account verification system and “refusing to comply with demands from disinformation-spreading pseudo-scientists.”

By Jeyhun Aghazada