European Commission President Romano Prodi was apparently not pleased after World Jewish Congress President Edgar Bronfman and European Jewish Congress President Coby Benatoff accused the EC of promoting anti-Semitism. So he took the obvious retaliatory step — he cancelled a planned seminar on anti-Semitism.
Prodi certainly knows how to make a point.
Source:
EU suspends anti-Semitism seminar. Douglas Davis, Jerusalem Post, January 6, 2004.