Prague, 2 December 2020. In its milestone decision published last week, the Czech Office for Documentation and Investigation of Communist Crimes of the Police of the Czech Republic declares that 11 deceased members of the 1980s’ politburo of the Communist…
Prague/Timişoara, 26 November – The Platform of European Memory and Conscience has released the Romanian version of the reader Lest We Forget. Memory of Totalitarianism in Europe (Să nu uităm. Amintirea totalitarismului în Europa). It is so far the 9th language version…
Prague, 16 November 2020. Thirty-one years after the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, the Platform of European Memory and Conscience has uncovered yet another attempt to thwart the prosecution of Communist crimes. Something is rotten in the running criminal investigation against…
Prague, 10 November 2020 – The Platform of European Memory and Conscience together with Le Collège des Bernardins (France) and in collaboration with the European Economic and Social Committee are organising an online conference entitled “Past for the Future”, which will take…
Prague, 22 October 2020 – Seventeen representatives of governmental, non-governmental and academic institutions from the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Romania, Slovenia and Ukraine participated during the JUSTICE 2.0 project online working meeting on 22 October. The participants discussed the current…
Prague, 19 October – Due to the current severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (Covid-19) situation in Europe, the annual Platform members council planned for 9-11 November in Prague has been postponed. The Platform Executive Board decision was adopted during…
Prague, 2 October 2020. The Member institutions and organisations of the Platform have decided to award the 2020 Prize of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience to the Belarusian opposition leader Ms Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. Ms Tsikhanouskaya will receive the…
Gdynia, 24 September – The 12th Unruly Unbreakable Cursed International Film Festival (NNW Film Festival) has just begun in Gdynia, Poland. The festival is taking place on 24 – 27 September 2020. It is an interdisciplinary festival that combines film art, visual…
Prague, 24 September – The Czech prosecutors announced they would halt the prosecution of former high-ranking Communist representatives and former ministers of interior Mr Lubomír Štrougal and Vratislav Vajnar. Together with Milouš Jakeš, who passed away in July, they have…
Prague,1 September – The Platform of European Memory and Conscience expresses its deepest concerns for the life of the Russian activist Alexei Navalny who was poisoned by a toxic substance, as confirmed by the Charite Hospital in Berlin. This situation reminds us that non-democratic governments…
