Does it include the countries which joined the expanded European Union or just its founding members?
Basically, it’s founding members. It has still not expanded to all of the 27 countries in the European Union. This is because, as a condition of their acceptance, the 12 recently joining countries of Central and Eastern Europe had to demonstrate that they maintained a high level of human rights recognition. Actually it is ironic that in the societies of Western Europe, which approved their qualification for entry to the EU, antisemitism and violence is rampant while the level of antisemitism in Eastern Europe is still below the level current in Western Europe. Are there other factors that account for the new antisemitism? Antisemitism is more violent than in the past and [this] is attributed mainly to Muslim immigrant groups. This also impacts in their violence toward the indigenous German population, as well as in France during the mass, countrywide demonstrations in November 2005, where the level of crime has risen dramatically and is directed not only towards Jews, but against Frenc
