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Europe’s Rising Crackdown on Populist Speech and Political Dissent

Across Europe, government institutions and aligned regulators are increasingly treating “populism” less as a viewpoint to contest at the ballot box and more as a problem to be contained through speech controls. The result is a political environment in which dissenting parties and their supporters face mounting pressure from rules that narrow what can be said, who can say it, and where it can be heard.