{"id":144494,"date":"2026-08-12T17:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T17:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/144494\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T17:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T17:30:15","slug":"exclusive-brussels-considering-bypass-of-irish-hate-speech-veto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/144494\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Brussels Considering Bypass of Irish Hate Speech Veto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission is considering legislation to harmonise online hate offences using an existing EU criminal-law power, Gript has learnt, in a move that would remove Ireland\u2019s veto over the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The workaround relates to a <a href=\"https:\/\/commission.europa.eu\/strategy-and-policy\/policies\/justice-and-fundamental-rights\/combatting-discrimination\/racism-and-xenophobia\/extending-eu-crimes-hate-speech-and-hate-crime_en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2021 attempt <\/a>by the EU to add hate speech to the list of areas in which the EU can legislate under Article 83(1) of its governing Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), listing specific crimes the bloc has competency over.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Get unlimited access to Gript<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European Commission is considering legislation to harmonise online hate offences using an existing EU criminal-law power, Gript&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[104],"tags":[211,210,327,69000,7994,58742],"class_list":["post-144494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-eu","tag-eu-criminal-law","tag-hate-speech","tag-veto"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117083729388466546","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}