National strategies and other measures to prevent and combat antisemitism

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On 6December2018, the Council of the European Union unanimously adopted

the Council Declaration on the f‌ight against antisemitism and the development

of acommon security approach to better protect Jewish communities and

institutions in Europe. The European Council welcomed the adoption of the

declaration on 13–14December2018. In the declaration, the Council of the

European Union “invites the Member States to adopt and implement aholistic

strategy to prevent and f‌ight all forms of antisemitism as part of their strategies

on preventing racism, xenophobia, radicalisation and violent extremism.”

For the f‌irst time, FRA collected information from the governments concerning

their action plans or, in cases where an action plan does not exist yet, plans

to establish one. Table53 shows that seven EU Member States report that

they had national strategies or action plans against antisemitism in place

by the end of 2019, with afurther six stating that they are in the process of

developing such astrategy or action plan. No information was available for

six Member States at the time of writing. The information was not collected

for the United Kingdom, as the information was collected after the United

Kingdom’s departure from the EU and no liaison off‌icer for the United Kingdom

was available.

National strategies and other measures

to prevent and combat antisemitism