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Commissioner Margot Wallström has removed a controversial part of her VE day speech (Photo: European Commission)

EU Commissioner in holocaust gaffe

Communication commissioner Margot Wallström removed a controversial passage on the holocaust from her VE day speech in Terezin, in the Czech Republic, but the original version of the text has caused upset.

The excised part of the speech hinted that rejecting a supranational Europe meant risking a new European holocaust, according to the Financial Times.

In the original version, Commissioner Wallström was to say "Yet there are those today who want to scrap the supranational idea. ...

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Commissioner Margot Wallström has removed a controversial part of her VE day speech (Photo: European Commission)

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