Nein, EU

Germans aren't going along with the EU's fascist turn:

Anna Schneider, the chief reporter for Die Welt had Breton’s “totalitarian” bid in her sights on Tuesday with a sardonic take, noting that “despite the fact that the European Union wants to stand for values ​​such as democracy, the rule of law, human rights and, last but not least, freedom” it somehow ends up treating a law ” to abolish freedom of expression… as a masterpiece”. The Union finds itself in the position of being “against freedom for freedom or something like that,” she quipped. The paradoxical logic of Breton as illustrated by Schneider is immediately redolent of the Colonel Blimp character created by cartoonist David Low, who satirised the attitudes of the British ruling class of the time, noting the attitude that colonised people needed the British Empire to protect them from massacres, and if they didn’t like it, they’d have to be shot to teach them a lesson. Freedom of speech should not be about whether you agree or disagree with Donald Trump and Elon Musk, leader-writer Schneider, who is known for arguing from a classical liberal, pro-freedom of speech position, said, but that position has been crowded out by a left-wing crackdown on dissent. She wrote: “These freedom-loving minds are united by their primal fear of everything that is not left-wing, and this apparently leads to adventurous fantasies such as the idea that Elon Musk, his tweets or generally the X platform and what can be said there represent a greater threat to democracy than totalitarian censorship that is being enshrined in European law.”

They don't want their past used as an example...