The European Commission has been forced to back down from its plans to introduce new common rules on hate crimes and hate speech. Several member states have blocked the proposal, which would give Brussels greater power over criminal law. But the EU is already considering a new way to regulate what people can post online.
EU Commission announces that it will withdraw its 2021 proposal to make so-called "hate crimes" and "hate speech" specific EU offenses. This would have given the EU the opportunity to introduce common criminal law provisions in this area. Hate crimes and hate propaganda would thus be included in the same list of crimes as, among others, terrorism, human trafficking, and organized crime.
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