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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9623
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/netherlands/european council

14/03/2008 (Agence Europe) - At the request of Jan Peter Balkenende, Prime Minister of the Netherlands, EU heads of state and government briefly discussed, on Friday at the European Council, the possible consequences of the distribution at the end of March of a film by Dutch populist Geert Wilders denouncing the Koran and the “dangers of Islam”. Diffusion of the film could give rise to a violent reaction in the Muslim world, comparable to that following the ruckus caused by the...

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