The following is a communique issued yesterday afternoon by the European Commission, in which it says that Ireland (and Finland) has failed in its duties as an EU member state by declining, thus far, to criminalise various forms of “hate speech”:
While Ireland notified some transposition measures in the meantime, the Commission considers that Ireland still fails to transpose the provisions related to criminalising the public incitement to violence or hatred against a group or a member of such group based on certain characteristics, as well as the conducts of condoning, denial, and gross trivialisation of international crimes and the Holocaust….
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