That is blatantly wrong.

The EU has been trying to ban encryption for the last 3 years so that it can read all your text messages, listen to your conversations and monitor the images you send to your loved ones/friends without requiring a warrant from the authorities, therefore granting them an unlimited access to everyone's private life without offering any possible recourse.

The EU's pro-privacy stance is a just a facade, they want as much data as the US government, they just don't want to admit it publicly.

ok, that’s fair, I totally blanked on the anti-encryption stance.

I still think having something on the books for general data protection is a net good, as it forced all the biggest US-based companies to at least start implementing data privacy controls.