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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/09/ncart109.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/02/09/ixnewstop.html
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> EU commissioner urges European press code on religion
> By David Rennie in Brussels
> (Filed: 09/02/2006)
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> Plans for a European press charter committing the media to "prudence"
> when reporting on Islam and other religions, were unveiled yesterday.
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> Franco Frattini, the European Union commissioner for justice, freedom
> and security, revealed the idea for a code of conduct in an interview
> with The Daily Telegraph. Mr Frattini, a former Italian foreign
> minister, said the EU faced the "very real problem" of trying to
> reconcile "two fundamental freedoms, the freedom of expression and the
> freedom of religion".
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> Millions of European Muslims felt "humiliated" by the publication of
> cartoons of Mohammed, he added, calling on journalists and media chiefs
> to accept that "the exercising of a right is always the assumption of a
> responsibility". He appealed to European media to agree to
> "self-regulate".
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> Accepting such self-regulation would send an important political
> message to the Muslim world, Mr Frattini said.
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> By agreeing to a charter "the press will give the Muslim world the
> message: we are aware of the consequences of exercising the right of
> free expression, we can and we are ready to self-regulate that right",
> he said.
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> The code of conduct, as envisaged by Mr Frattini, would acknowledge the
> importance of respecting religious sensibilities but would not offer a
> "privileged" status to any one faith.
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> Is urging a press code a kind of censorship?