Conspiracy or administrative oversight?  Whatever the answer this failure to include a major religious group’s holidays, in this case Christian holidays, chips away at trust and social harmony.

The European Union has sent millions of diaries to schools which list the dates of Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Jewish and Chinese festivals – but omit any mention of Christian celebrations.

In an extraordinary move, three million 2011 notebooks were printed at a cost of £4.4million to the taxpayer. Around 350,000 of the diaries have already been shipped to schools in the UK alone.

There is no record for Christmas, Easter or Lent – despite bureaucrats carefully listing the EU’s self-styled ‘Europe Day’ on May 9.

[h/t Sam Green] Read more, EU diaries miss Christmas Easter list Muslim Chinese Hindu holidays.