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    • EU establishes European Day Against the Death Penalty

      Article published on December 12th, 2007

      The change of government in Poland means that all EU member states now agree to take part in the World Day Against the Death Penalty every October 10.

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    • The European Unions's Council of justice ministers on December 7 approved the creation of a European Day Against the Death Penalty. The event will take place every year on October 10, in conjunction with the World Coalition-sponsored World Day Against the Death Penalty.
      The move came after Polish voters elected a new governement last October. The previous Polish prime minister, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, had been blocking the EU initiative, arguing that the issue of capital punishment could not be considered separately from those of euthanasia and abortion.
      Poland's new Prime minister, Donald Tusk, has been eager to restore better co-operation with his country's EU partners since he was sworn in on November 16.
      On the death penalty front, this took the form of his justice minister's lifting the Polish veto on the creation of the European Day Against the Death Penalty.
      The EU, which imposes the abolition of the death penalty on all its member states, co-organised a conference in Lisbon with the World Coalition on October 10 last, despite the delay in the establishment of the full-scale European Day.
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