Brussels Quietly Shelves Plan To Make 'Hate Speech' An EU-Wide Crime... But There's A Catch

Brussels Quietly Shelves Plan To Make 'Hate Speech' An EU-Wide Crime... But There's A Catch The European Commission plans to withdraw its proposal to make hate speech and hate crime EU-wide criminal offenses after the bid stalled in the Council of the EU, the Epoch Times reported.The Commission announced the decision on Nov. 4, the Epoch Times said. It concerns an initiative unveiled in December 2021 to add hate speech and hate crime to the list of EU crimes in Article 83(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, alongside terrorism, human trafficking and cybercrime. Doing so required the unanimous approval of member states and the consent of the European Parliament, which would then have let the Commission...

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