(FILES) EU commissioner for internal market and consumer protection, industry, research and energy Thierry Breton talks during a press conference after the college meeting with High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell (unseen), and European Commission vice-president in for a Europe fit for the digital, Margrethe Vestager (unseen), on the European Defence Industrial Strategy and the European Defence Investment Programme at the Eu headquarters in Brussels on March 5, 2024. France's President and the French political class in generalexcept for certain voices within the RNon December 24, 2025, condemned the Trump administration's decision to ban former European Commissioner Thierry Breton and four other European figures from entering the country because of their efforts to regulate digital platforms, seeing it as an attack on European sovereignty. (Photo by JOHN THYS / AFP via Getty Images)