login
login

Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9852

3 March 2009
Contents Publication in full By article 26 / 34
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha
EU will not press charges over negationist ideas because no incitement to hatred or violence

Brussels, 02/03/2009 (Agence Europe) - At the end of an EU27 justice ministers' meeting on Friday 27 February, the Czech Presidency explained that the European Union does not possess any kind of instrument that could sanction the negationist ideas expressed by Bishop Richard Williamson. The real question was one of whether member states were able to apply provisions in European legislation in order to pursue and sanction the ideas expressed by Monsignor Williamson, who recently provoked a...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION
SUPPLEMENT