Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Background and Pracedent
- Part II Present and Current Situations
- 3 Fiqh in Modern Europe: ‘Minority fiqh’
- 4 Muslims in Europe: Precedent and Present
- 5 Muslims and Religious Discrimination: EU Law and Policy
- Part III A Case Study and Conclusions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Index
5 - Muslims and Religious Discrimination: EU Law and Policy
from Part II - Present and Current Situations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Background and Pracedent
- Part II Present and Current Situations
- 3 Fiqh in Modern Europe: ‘Minority fiqh’
- 4 Muslims in Europe: Precedent and Present
- 5 Muslims and Religious Discrimination: EU Law and Policy
- Part III A Case Study and Conclusions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Index
Summary
THE FIRST HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Saw two major military conflicts almost engulfing the entire continent of Europe: the ‘Great War, which ended in 1918, and the war between Nazi Germany and the Allies, which ended in 1945 – two conflicts which saw immense bloodshed on the continent and which had lasting repercussions well beyond Europe's borders. The second half of the twentieth century, however, saw a different Europe rising from the ashes of bitter intra-European struggles. A new impulse took root on a huge swathe of European territory, particularly in the West.
For centuries, political philosophers and theorists have discussed the concept of a union of states within the continent of Europe. In its modern manifestation, the concept has found itself involved in a debate revolving around the European communities which began life after the end of hostilities between the Axis powers and the Allies in the 1940s. In 1950, the then French foreign minister, Robert Schuman, put forward a plan he had worked out with Jean Monnet to enable Europe's coal and steel industries to work together. Tis, he declared, would constitute a great step for an ‘organised and vital Europe’.
In Paris, on 18 April 1951, Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands signed the Treaty of the European Coal and Steel Community. Te Treaties of Rome six years later (25 March 1957), created the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom). More states joined the EEC, which eventually included the UK (1973), Ireland (1973), Denmark (1973), Greece (1981), Portugal and Spain (1986).
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- Muslims of EuropeThe 'Other' Europeans, pp. 121 - 140Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2009