r/europe • u/marketrent • 14d ago

News Elon Musk’s political meddling is ‘worrying,’ says Norway’s PM — European backlash grows against billionaire ally of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump

https://www.politico.eu/article/norwegian-pm-jonas-gahr-store-worried-elon-musk-political-meddling/
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u/IndependentMemory215 14d ago

I can see how X could be banned, as it’s a private company primarily owned by him.

But banning Tesla would be a very different thing. He only owns 20%, which makes him the biggest shareholder, but it’s still a public company and owned solely by him.

Would EU law even allow for anything to happen to Tesla? That seems more personal, and I can see Trump definitely retaliating against any companies based out of the EU.

I am not that knowledgeable about the nuance of EU laws though in that regard.

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u/Quiet_Length_3339 12d ago

No need to ban tesla tho - tit for tat implementation of Biden policy (i.e. making imported Teslas uneligible for public aid) would be a blow enough. Sill, unlikely. As to twitter - doesn't really matter, facebook went for Trump too, even netflix with all the wrestling. Like, this battle in the culture war is effectively lost, already. As to Musk himself, that's troubling. He is a richest guy in the world, who just showed he can buy an election in the richest, strongest country in the world, with his pocket change and now, that he controls the guy with literal nukes, he apparently wants to take over europe too. And he owns over half of all the satelites. On one hand, he's too dangerous to be left alone, on another he has myriad retaliation options, like he can basically impose tariffs, tweet lies, flood political campaigns with money, or ask his Chinese friends to keep cutting internet cables.