The fallout from the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s report on alleged EU election interference is now spreading across Europe, with opposition politicians and MEPs citing it as confirmation of long-standing concerns about Brussels’ political reach. Rather than being dismissed as a partisan document from Washington, the findings are increasingly being invoked across the continent as evidence that the European Commission has crossed the line from regulation into political intervention. At the centre of the controversy is the alleged use of the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA)—a law intended to regulate online platforms—as a means of shaping the electoral playing field. The report alleges that the European Commission pressured major social media companies to suppress lawful political speech ahead of elections. The content targeted was not illegal but politically inconvenient. It included EU-critical commentary, scepticism about migration policy, criticism of gender ideology, so-called …