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Holocaust memorial in Berlin - Earlier EU attempts to harmonise laws against hate crimes failed (Photo: German government)

EU anti-hate law sparks debate on Nazi and Soviet crimes

With Germany reviving its proposal on EU-wide minimum sentences for incitement to racial hatred and genocide denial, some EU states are taking a firm anti-communist stance demanding that totalitarian regimes become part of the bill's scope.

Estonia, Poland and Slovenia – all carrying the burden of a communist past – demand that denial of the crimes of totalitarian regimes, including communism, should be explicitly mentioned in the text, with one EU diplomat saying "the aim is to achieve...

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Holocaust memorial in Berlin - Earlier EU attempts to harmonise laws against hate crimes failed (Photo: German government)

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