{"id":2350,"date":"2026-01-28T16:09:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/?p=2350"},"modified":"2026-01-28T16:10:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:10:33","slug":"punishing-opinions-is-how-freedoms-diemy-warning-to-eu-leaders-sanctions-must-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/punishing-opinions-is-how-freedoms-diemy-warning-to-eu-leaders-sanctions-must-not\/","title":{"rendered":"MY WARNING TO EU LEADERS: SANCTIONS MUST NOT PUNISH FREE SPEECH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, I wrote to Luxembourg\u2019s Prime Minister, the President of the European Council, the Foreign Minister, and the EU\u2019s High Representative to express my serious concerns about the EU\u2019s practice of sanctioning private individuals for their opinions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The listing of analysts such as Jacques Baud\u2014without any criminal conviction\u2014raises fundamental questions about freedom of speech, due process, and respect for the rule of law in the European Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sanctions must not become a tool to punish dissenting views. Human rights and free expression must be upheld\u2014without exception.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I wrote to Luxembourg\u2019s Prime Minister, the President of the European Council, the Foreign Minister, and the EU\u2019s High Representative to express my serious concerns about the EU\u2019s practice of sanctioning private individuals for their opinions. The listing of analysts such as Jacques Baud\u2014without any criminal conviction\u2014raises fundamental questions about freedom of speech, due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2354,"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions\/2354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}