Is it really possible to ban social network X in Europe, as Thierry Breton claims?

Since the election of Donald Trump and the promise to place Elon Musk in his government, the South African billionaire has continued to multiply the escapades on his social network X. During the attack on the Magdeburg Christmas market in December , he promoted a theory that the suspect was a closet Islamist, who actually turned out to be “Islamophobic”, according to the authorities. The richest man in the world also invited himself into British politics by supporting Nigel Farage, leader of the far-right Reform UK party and in Argentina, by praising the merits of President Javier Milei.

In the United States, it almost caused a «shutdown» by calling on Congress not to vote on a compromise that it considered too wasteful. In Germany, he is calling on Internet users to vote for the populist right-wing party, the AfD, seven weeks before the federal elections. So much interference in the policies of several countries, which pushes other powers to question the political orientation of Platform X. This is why, Wednesday morning, the former Minister of the Economy and former European Commissioner in the domestic market, Thierry Breton, affirmed on LCI that he was «possible» to ban the social network in the European Union. But in reality, would it really be possible to cut off access to Internet users from the Old Continent to X?