An EU age limit for social media? Get the lawyers in
But von der Leyen has so far overlooked a simple fact: It's up to national governments, not the EU, to set age restrictions for alcohol and tobacco. The Commission can coordinate rules about health but cannot harmonize them, according to the legal treaties of the bloc. “There is a significant question of whether [banning social media] is even something that the European Union has the power to...
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