Dresden, 10 March 2014. The Platform Reader “Damit wir nicht vergessen. Erinnerung and den Totalitarismus in Europa” will be presented at the Saxon State representation in Berlin, Germany, on 1 April. Two of the protagonists of the Reader`s 30 stories, Ms Juliana Zarchi (Lithuania) and Ms Benita Plezere-Eglite (Latvia), will take part in the...
Prague, 10 March 2014. Seventy percent of older secondary school students in the Czech Republic do not think that the Nazi and Communist totalitarianisms have been overcome sufficiently. This is a result of a survey conducted by the Platform of European Memory and Conscience...
Prague, 4 March 2014. Representatives of the Platform – President Göran Lindblad, Managing Director Neela Winkelmann and members of the Executive Board Siegfried Reiprich and Paweł Ukielski met Mr Bohuslav Sobotka, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic and Mr Vladimír Špidla, the Prime Minister`s chief...
Göteborg / Ljubljana, 11 February 2014. On 28 January 2014, the Slovenian National Assembly passed a new amendment to the Law on Archives which technically closes the archives of the former secret service of the totalitarian regime, because it prescribes the anonymisation of sensitive...
Göteborg/Prague, 7 February 2014. In line with yesterday`s European Parliament resolution on Ukraine, the Platform of European Memory and Conscience sent letters today to EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy, Commission President Manuel Barroso and EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy...
Prague, 5 February 2014. The Platform of European Memory and Conscience, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Všehrd Association of Czech Lawyers held an official presentation of the four different language versions of the Reader for Schools at the Krásný ztráty café in Prague....
