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By Oana Lungescu
BBC News, Brussels
Franco Frattini, EU justice commissioner
Franco Frattini has called for a wider debate on totalitarian symbols
The European Commission has rejected calls for a proposed Europe-wide ban on Nazi symbols to be extended to cover Communist Party symbols as well.
While calling for a wide-ranging debate on Europe's past experience with extreme ideologies, the EU justice commissioner said it would not be appropriate to include a ban of Soviet communist symbols in a proposed Europe-wide law on racism and xenophobia.
Last week, several conservative Euro-MPs from the former communist bloc - led by former Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis and Hungarian Joszef Szajer - asked for communist symbols to be treated in the same way as Nazi ones.
They said it would show that Europe condemns on equal terms the evils of communism and Nazism.