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- February 23, 2006
Most events, no matter how dramatic and attention-grabbing, sooner or later fade from memory. It is a normal process. However, from the viewpoint of policymaking, particularly when certain events have a tendency to repeat themselves, some lessons ought to be learned.
The ethnic clashes in France, like earlier ethnic clashes in the Netherlands, Spain, Britain, and elsewhere in Europe, revealed the incompetence of the EU and its members to make equality and nondiscrimination more than rhetorical values. The result: vulnerable communities become a combustible material ready to explode at the first spark of a problem, or provocation.
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