EU COUNCIL PRESIDENT MICHEL CALLS FOR EUROPEAN INSTITUTE ‘TO TRAIN IMAMS’

Wed 11 November 2020:

European Council president Charles Michel said Monday he supported creating a European institute to train imams, as he visited Austria to pay tribute to the victims of last week’s extremist attack in Vienna.

“It is very important to be firm on this. I think, for example, that we should have a debate at the European level connected to the idea that was raised some time ago to set up a European institute to train imams,” he told the media.

“Online messages glorifying terrorism must be quickly removed. There must be no impunity for terrorists and those praising them on internet,” he added.

For his part, Kurz said Europe should act jointly in the fight against terrorism and jointly address the problem of foreign terrorist fighters, because these people pose a great danger to Europe.

Kurz reiterated the importance of protecting EU’s external borders, arguing that the fight against “political Islam” should be continued decisively.

At least four people died and 22 more were wounded in the terror attack in Austria’s capital last week.

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