Thyregod: What Jacques Baud case tells ordinary Europeans

December 24, 2025

Kristian Thyregod: This essay unpacks what the Jacques Baud case actually is – an executive sanctions decision against a Western analyst for speech – and asks what it tells us about how far the EU’s “hybrid threats” logic can reach. You don’t have to like Baud, or agree with him, to see the implications for ordinary Europeans when foreign-policy tools are turned inward on opinion…