There is no place for anti-Semitism in Europe, a top E.U. official said. Romano Prodi made his comments Thursday at a historic meeting on anti-Semitism organized by the European Commission and the European Jewish Congress. Prodi admitted that there are vestiges of age-old anti-Semitism in Europe but denied that the situation is comparable to the one that existed on the Continent in the 1930s.
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