The French law criminalising the denial of the Armenian genocide during the first world war is a "bad mistake" says the Finnish foreign minister, explaining that historical truths should not be up to politicians to decide.
"Legislators should never interfere with this kind of open and introspective soul-searching and the debates it fosters," Erkki Tuomioja writes on his internet blog, as Finland currently holds the rotating EU presidency.
"Unfortunately the French National Assembl...
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