European Union officials on Thursday launched the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights – the 27-nation bloc’s latest effort to stamp out intolerance as it struggles to absorb an unprecedented crush of immigrants. Officials said the new agency would expand the work of the Vienna-based European Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia to forge an EU-wide…
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…
The European Union has backed Denmark in the row over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, but leaders of its legislature differed over the limits of free speech. The cartoons, first published in Denmark, caused outrage in the Muslim world, and Danish and other European diplomatic missions have been attacked in Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Pakistan and…
École de Médecine 15, rue de l’École de Méde cine, 75006 Paris A Roundtable By The Network On Comparative Research On Islam and Muslims In Europe (NOCRIME) Organized with the Sponsorship of the European Commission (DG Research) Keynote address by Jocelyne Cesari Key question addressed: do Muslims Create and Organize their Communities in Ways that…
A Roundtable By The Network On Comparative Research On Islam and Muslims In Europe (NOCRIME) Organized with the Censorship of the European Commission (DG Research) Session 1: Legal, Social and Cultural Aspects of Integration of Islam in Different European Countries and in the European Union Opening Remarks and Introduction Jean-Paul Willaime EPHE, Director of GSRL…
