EU agrees it should be a crime to deny the Holocaust

The Boston Globe

"EU agrees it should be a crime to deny the Holocaust
But draft rapped as watered down

By Dan Bilefsky, International Herald Tribune | April 20, 2007

BRUSSELS -- The European Union approved legislation yesterday that would make denying the Holocaust punishable by jail sentences, but would give countries across the 27-member bloc the option of not enforcing the law if such a prohibition did not exist in their own laws."