France sends under-15 social media ban plan to EU, Macron says

France has sent a reworked plan to the European Commission to ban children under 15 from using social media, President Emmanuel Macron said Monday, after the country's Constitutional Council struck down an earlier version.

Macron wrote on X that the government was notifying Brussels of the new draft after “rigorous technical work.” Notification to the European Commission is a key step intended to ensure legislation complies with European Union law.

The Constitutional Council rejected the previous law in mid-August, finding that part of it unnecessarily infringed freedom of expression. Macron has made a children's social media ban a priority, wants one in force before he leaves office next year and has called for similar rules across the EU.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is due to address a possible EU-wide children's social media ban in Brussels this week. More countries are considering social media restrictions amid warnings about harm to children.