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Να γiνουν ποι&nu ;ικαδικorματα η ρητορικor και τα &epsilon ;γκλorματα μλσους προτελνει το ΕΚ /></p> <p><strong>The European Parliament is expected to call on the European Council to take action to tackle hate speech and hate crimes in the EU, with a resolution on Thursday, after a plenary debate on the matter on Wednesday.</strong></p> <p> The draft report calls for progress on adding hate speech and hate crimes to the list of “eurocrimes”, a process which has been “stuck” in the Council since 2022.</p> <p>The criminal offenses defined by European legislation are crimes of a particularly serious nature with a cross-border dimension and are prosecuted at European level, said rapporteur Maite Pagazaurtundúa.</p> <p>As he noted, in recent times, the NCDs have legalized some hate speech, resulting in serious crimes being committed. He noted that currently, member states' laws deal with hate speech and hate crimes in different ways, while EU-level rules have limited scope to race, skin colour, religion, descent and national origin. or ethnic origin. Now it is proposed to add the fields of gender, sexual orientation, disability.</p> <p>The draft of the report, which is expected to be voted on Thursday, calls for an expansion of the Union's list of crimes. The rapporteur underlined that freedom of expression is expressly protected.</p> <p>For his part, Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders said that hate speech and crimes pose a serious threat not only to the immediate victims but to society as a whole and threaten the values ​​on which democracy and the EU were founded. lately we have been present in front of scenes that we wanted to never see again in Europe,” he said, referring to an alarming increase in anti-Semitism and hate speech against Muslims.</p> <p>He noted that it is his personal commitment to ensure that Member States transpose the 2008 Framework Decision on Combating Racism and Xenophobia into national law, so that all European citizens have full rights. As he said, the Commission has launched 13 procedures against states that have gaps in transposition, while 10 Member States have taken action to change their legislation.</p> <p>He noted that if the report is adopted, the Commission can propose a common approach to tackling hate speech, although the Council has not yet reached a consensus. “The recent resurgence of hate speech shows that a quick Council decision on the matter is needed.”</p> <p>From the EP Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality, Robert Biedroń added that gendered hate speech must be expressly defined in legislation. She noted that 52% of girls have experienced hate speech online and stressed that tackling it must be a shared goal and responsibility.</p> <p>The Cypriot MEP of the Left Group, Niazi Kizilyurek, in his intervention, said that we are witnessing the increase of racist phenomena, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance that stem from ethnocentrism, patriarchal perception and cultural racism.</p> <p> “Xenophobia, empathy against immigrants and in general the rejection of otherness, is the unifying element of the new far-right and must be condemned without hesitation,” he added.</p> <p>Mr. Kizilyurek said that in Cyprus recently there have been two pogroms against immigrants, while a few days ago KISA, an NGO that defends the rights of immigrants, was bombed.</p> <p>“We must not leave any more room for misinterpretation of hate speech and hate crimes . Combating these phenomena must be a priority for the EU,” he said, calling on the Commission to speed up the introduction of legal measures and criteria for the definition of criminal hate crimes, which will apply to all member states.</p> <p><noindex></p> <div class=Source: 24h.com.cy

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