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One
should be very careful about
outlawing political matters
that have nothing to do with
racism.
— Danish Socialist People’s
Party MP Pernille Frahm

The
Copenhagen Post

Copenhagen, Denmark, July 15, 2002

RACISM
PROPOSAL

ONE of the
Government’s most vociferous critics in the immigration debate, Socialist
People’s Party MP Pernille
Frahm, is now refusing to back an
EU proposal to combat racism and xenophobia, a top-level issue for the
[Danish] Government during the
EU Presidency.

Under the EU proposal, ‘holocaust denial’ should be a punishable offence throughout the EU, as it is today in
Germany and Austria — which according to Frahm is going too far.

‘One should be very careful about outlawing political matters that have nothing to do with racism,’ says Frahm.

Minister of Justice Lene
Espersen is hoping to reach a political consensus on the EU’s racism proposal during Denmark’s EU
Presidency, in an effort to refute the negative picture of Denmark as a xenophobic country in the foreign press.

Source Information
Original Publication: 2002-07-15
Digital Archive: Focal Point Publications
Accessed: June 4, 2026