Strasbourg, 15/02/2006 (Agence Europe) - On 15 February, the European Parliament debated “freedom of expression and respect for religious belief” after the violent reactions to the publication in the Danish Press of caricatures of Muhammed.
President of the Council Hans Winkler said the controversy over the caricatures was regrettable because something the European Union had striven for was reciprocal trust between religious communities. What, he wondered, had gone wrong and what could...