Antisemitism

Greece has condemned an anti-Semitic attack in which two people were killed in the eastern German city of Halle.
"Deeply shocked by the atrocious attack in the Halle synagogue, Germany. There is no place for antisemitism in Europe," the Foreign Ministry said in a tweet on Thursday.

A neo-Nazi who killed two people in eastern Germany on Oct. 9originally planned to storm a mosque, according to a manifesto apparently written by him and posted online.

The fight against anti-Semitism is a constant topic that grabs the attention of the Romanian government, having also been a priority with Romania in its first tenure as president of the EU Council in the first half of 2019, Prime Minister Viorica Dancila says in a message on October 9, Romania's National Holocaust Remembrance Day.

At a ceremony hosted by the Cotroceni Presidential Palace on Tuesday, President Klaus Iohannis signed a decree promulgating a law on the establishment of the National Museum of Jewish History and the Holocaust in Romania. "I have promulgated this law thinking about history, about present and especially about the future.

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila, on a working visit to the United States, gave assurances that the Government will continue the actions to combat anti-Semitism, xenophobia and any form of intolerance.

Sept. 1 marks the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, the greatest tragedy of the 20th century, during which the nations of the world became objects of aggression from the most powerful and organized military machine of the time, led by the hateful Nazi ideology.

Education Minister Niki Kerameus met Tuesday with members of the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS) to discuss issues affecting the Greek-Jewish community.

Kerameus said tackling anti-semitism improves the quality if democracy and added that one of the purposes of the educational system should be to establish mutual respect. 

The National Statistical Institute (NSI) and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) start work on the project "New Approaches for Generating Data on Hard-to-reach Populations at Risk of Violation of Their Rights", Diana Yancheva - Deputy Chairman of the NSI told reporters.

Agriculture Minister Makis Voridis has rejected allegations of anti-Semitism levelled against him by the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS), the umbrella organization of Greek Jews.

Israel has reacted to the appointment of New Democracy deputy Makis Voridis in Greece's new cabinet, with an unnamed diplomatic official telling The Jerusalem Post that the country will not cooperate with the new minister for agriculture and food because of his antisemitic past.