Pushed by ๐ซ๐ท ๐ฆ๐น, ๐ฉ๐ช EU presidency wants #euco to sign off on push against Islamic radicalism and terrorism. Draft text connects radicalisation/terrorism with migration and integration, calling for sanctions for a "refusal to integrate" like removing funding from NGOs 
Anti-terror draft says migrants must make active effort to "successfully integrate" and prove adherence to EU values. Reference to children captures French discomfort at alleged "separatism" not of migrants but 2nd/3rd generation French Muslim citizens who are not immigrants.
Merkel, Macron, Kurz due to discuss the text and possible endorsement at video-conference of EU leaders next week. Unclear how Poland and Hungary feel about the compulsory education of EU values like human rights, freedom of religion, and equal rights of men and women
โViolations of the democratic order and values of European member states or of their national laws should be neither downplayed nor tolerated, no matter what motivates them." ft.com/content/cba469โฆ
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