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| EU drops plans to ban swastikas | |
| 2005-02-26 | |
The European Union has abandoned plans to ban swastikas and other Nazi symbols but said work would continue on a wider law to fight racism and xenophobia. EU justice ministers dropped the planned ban on swastikas after Britain, Hungary and Denmark objected, saying a discussion on symbols would detract from the wider and more important fight against racism. Calls for such a move emerged last month after Britain's Prince Harry caused outrage by wearing a swastika armband and a Nazi costume to a fancy dress party. The debate grew more heated after others in the EU called for communist symbols, including the red star and the hammer and the sickle, to be subject to a similar ban.
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| Posted by:Seafarious |
| #4 Does this mean the French will quit their legal harrassment of Yahoo and Ebay for stuff displaying materials related to the National Socialist German Workers Party on their sites? |
| Posted by: Elmagum Elmelet3878 2005-02-26 6:18:23 PM |
| #3 ...What suprises me a little about this article is that for decades now, you have not been able to show a swastika in books, TV shows, or plastic models in continental Europe. I have several kits of WWII german a/c where the swastika is either not included in the markings at all or printed in such a way that it has to be assembled on the model. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2005-02-26 8:02:15 AM |
| #2 besides the costume party supplier mafia the banning would have hurt the feelings of appreciators of early bhuddist symbols [all six] |
| Posted by: SON OF TOLUI 2005-02-26 2:26:05 AM |
| #1 The truth the EU couldn't bring it's self to ban the Hammer and Sickle. It is the Flag many EUcrats and European TRANZIs would proudly display. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2005-02-26 12:30:45 AM |