The vice-president of the European Commission Franco Frattini has said Europe can only respect Muslim traditions if they do not contradict the bloc's own basic values, such as freedom of speech or equality between men and women.
"We are not governed by sharia, after all," he said in an interview with the Italian daily La Repubblica published on Monday (9 October).
Mr Frattini, in charge of the justice and security portfolio, has among commissioners been the most outspoken critic ...
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