Panic at the Discotheque: The EU Declares War on Glitter

The war in Ukraine? Fire in the Middle East? D’accord, but it’s easier, apparently, for Brussels to take the sparkle out of dancers than dictators.

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The Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, at Budapest, May 4, 2023. Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP

One week into a new year already overheated by wars on three continents, the EU has decided that more important than beating back Russia in Ukraine or dousing Middle Eastern flames is banning glitter from makeup shelves and dance floors. That on its face might strike some as innocuous or insane as Brussels tumbles toward irrelevance. 

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