Strasbourg, 05/09/2006 (Agence Europe) - Sarah Ludford (ALDE, UK), Vice-Chair of the European Parliament's Anti-Racism and Diversity Intergroup, has called on the EU Council to take swift action to combat race, religious and homophobic hate crime. “The EU has made important achievements to tackle discrimination against women, gay, ethnic and religious minority and older people as employees and consumers. However, it has so far failed to match this with European-wide measures to punish...