BUDAPEST—European nations are waking up to the consequences of their own censorship, a former senior advisor to President Donald Trump argued on Wednesday — a cultural shift due in large part to Trump’s return to the world stage.
Jason Miller, a longtime political strategist and the founder of GETTR, spoke at the EU-US Summit at the Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace Budapest, where he discussed the European Union’s ongoing attempts at censorship of European citizens with former White House director of the Domestic Policy Council Joe Grogan and Matt Mowers, president of the global strategies firm Valcour and a State Department veteran.
Miller held up a copy of The Economist that featured a startling headline in bold: “Europe’s Free Speech Problem.” The Economist is far from a right-leaning publication, the former Trump advisor joked, emphasizing that “Free speech is a…