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The EU’s contradictory rhetoric about protecting digital freedoms and implementing total control tools raises doubts about Brussels’ commitment to democratic principles and indicates a shift towards governance methods that were previously criticized as authoritarian.

The cruel irony is that we probably need new Church Committee-style investigations more today than ever before, but the political will simply doesn’t exist. Why? Because the surveillance state has become bipartisan orthodoxy.

The news that the border-free Schengen Zone is unravelling is scary news for the 420 million citizens living within the passport-free zone. What's a hundred times scarier is the purposeful deconstruction of relations going on underneath. Most importantly, recent moves…