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Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, has attacked President Donald J. Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance for allegedly being “friendly” to Russia and echoing “Russian narratives and talking points” about the war in Ukraine. Kallas, a former Prime Minister of Estonia, also pushed back against Vice President Vance’s observations about the erosion of speech in the EU, claiming it is “one of the fundamental values of the European Union” despite speech restrictions being endemic across the bloc.
“It was very surprising. Why did he attack and say that we have a problem with freedom of expression when this is one of the fundamental values of the European Union? I refuse to accept that criticism because it’s just simply not true,” Kallas said of Vance’s remarks.
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However, while “freedom of expression” is supposedly guaranteed by Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, the Convention notes that