On Monday 27 January, the European Council paid tribute to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, 80 years to the day after the liberation of the German Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, where more than a million people perished, largely because they were Jewish.
In a declaration, the EU27 express alarm at the “unprecedented increase in antisemitism on our continent, not seen since the Second World War”. They strongly condemn “Holocaust denial and distortion, as well...