concerned about the situation of human rights in europe today we have a lot to do across so many issues so many groups migrants older people at the disabled there s a huge program of work to be done but much the challenges with the achievements but you have said that quote twenty seventeen was not a great year in terms of respect of protection and the promotion of human and fundamental right not a great year that s an. minute now i agree it was a it was a very very challenging time it remains a challenging time to take the migration crisis it s still a crisis we still have not a crisis because of the migration it is the crisis of democracy in the member states of europe it s a crisis of migration policy in other words i largely agree with you it s about a failure to show solidarity to risk to share the responsibility across member states it s about failure to get the basics in place in so many places we ve been following the story very closely for the last two years and yesterday in
we have really serious and growing problems and it s the job of my agency to get the data about those problems out there in the public domain the actual experience of muslims in europe the actual experience of jews in europe put that in front of the policymakers the decision makers and then challenge them but deliver only human rights from it is the problem not the solution in some countries it s not that simple and there s an enormous diversity of of willingness to make for better societies but it s not just the policy makers the politicians who make our societies it s also about civil society it s also about the faith groups it s the citizens themselves and a large part of our work is to engage with them and to convince them that this is something worth fighting for i will repeat my question in some countries are the governments the problem or the solution like poland for example. i just wouldn t put it that simply in some countries we ve got far more serious
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A new ban on foreign-appointed imams in France is aimed at combating Islamist separatism, but the policy risks making matters worse by handing future decisions about hiring imams over to local groups affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood. The French