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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lisa O'Carroll in Brussels

EU pledges €30m to protect mosques and synagogues amid hate crime rise

Police outside the Tournelles Synagogue in Paris
Police outside the Tournelles Synagogue in Paris in October. The European Commission is to increase security outside places of worship. Photograph: Geoffroy van der Hasselt/AFP/Getty

The European Commission has promised a €30m (£26m) fund to increase security at mosques and synagogues across the continent as it condemned a recent rise in levels of antisemitism and Islamophobia as “un-European”.

Saying that tensions surrounding the Israel-Hamas war had provoked hostility “reminiscent of the darkest days of Europe’s history”, the commission called on social media companies to do more to remove hateful content.

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