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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9631
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/netherlands

Distribution of film openly hostile to Islam causes stir

Brussels, 28/03/2008 (Agence Europe) - The EU fully supports the position of the Netherlands government concerning the online publication of the film “Fitna” by far right Dutch MP Geert Wilders. On Thursday 27 March, the prime minister of the Netherlands, Jan Peter Balkenende, regretted that the film was available. “We feel the film's only aim is to offend”, Mr Balkenende stressed during a press conference, welcoming the Dutch Muslims' call for calm. Mr Wilders repeated that his film...

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