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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9794

2 December 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha
EU to penalise racism and xenophobia

Brussels, 01/12/2008 (Agence Europe) - Racism, incitement to hatred, and justifying, denying or trivialising crimes of genocide will soon be punishable by a prison sentence of between one and three years throughout the European Union. On Friday 28 November, the European justice ministers agreed to bring these criminal sanctions into all of their legislations. It has taken nearly 7 years of negotiations to reach this result, stressed the European Justice Commissioner Jacques Barrot, speaking...

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