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Saturday, October 28, 2006

Freedom of expression and the European Union

"Freedom of expression and the European Union
by
Graham Watson*

Last week a founding EU Member State, France, suffered the indignity on receiving a lecture from the Turkish Government on fundamental human rights after its lower chamber of parliament approved a bill that, if passed into law, would make it a crime to deny the Armenian genocide. Fortunately, it seems unlikely to enter into law as it must both pass through the Senate and obtain the signature of the French President."

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