“A certain degree of linkage between the growing violence among the younger generation and the growing diffusion of violent games exists,” said Franco Frattini, the European Justice commissioner, at a meeting of the justice ministers in Dresden, Germany, on Tuesday.
The Commission also wants to harmonize national rules in the 27 countries in the Union. “Protection of children cannot have borders,” Frattini said. The Commission wants to see a combination of outright bans on the most violent games, together with minimum age rules on other titles.
The German government said it will conduct a study of all the different national rules concerning video games, with a view to setting Union-wide norms. Its initiative makes the prospect of a ban much more likely.
EU to ban violent games?
Posted on Monday, January 22 2007 @ 2:15 CET by Thomas De MaesschalckThis month Germany took over the six-month rotating presidency of the European Union. One of the things Germany and the European Commission would like to push is more control of video game violence:
