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Is criticism of the EU blasphemy?

The European army which is not an army, according to British ministers, is not the only matter that is exercising the British media. There is the question of whether criticism of EU institutions should be treated in the same way as blasphemy and, therefore, be exempt from freedom of speech.

The subject came up in a case before the European Court of Justice, when Bernard Connolly, a former high-ranking employee of the Commission and author of the severely critical book “The Rotten Heart...

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