Wilders invite causes MP trouble
The parties behind a conference in Copenhagen on anti-radicalisation disagree on whether Geert Wilders should be invited.

by Julian Isherwood
Politiken.dk
March 25, 2009

http://www.legal-project.org/228/wilders-invite-causes-mp-trouble

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The Liberal Alliance Party is planning to block an invitation to the controversial Dutch politician Geert Wilders to take part in an international conference on the freedom of speech and anti-radicalisation that is to be held in Copenhagen in June.

The Danish People's Party and the ruling junior coalition Conservative Party both want to invite Wilders.

"We don't want to make this conference into some sort of freak show, to which we simply call in those who can create most trouble on the streets, simply to show how brave we are," says Liberal Alliance Chairman Anders Samuelsen.

Samuelsen, who heads the smallest party in Parliament, has just sent his invitation list to Integration Minister Birthe Rønn Hornbech who is arranging the conference. The Liberal Alliance and the Danish People's Party are co-organisers of the conference, as it formed part of the government's budget agreement, which both parties supported.

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