International Conference 5 June, 2012 European Parliament, Brussels Under the auspices of Ms Sandra Kalniete (LV), Mr László Tökés (RO), Mr Tunne Kelam (EE), Mr Milan Zver (SI), Mr Vytautas Landsbergis (LT), Mr György Schöpflin (HU), Mr József Szájer (HU), Mr Paweł Robert Kowal (PL), Ms Monica Luisa Macovei (RO), Mr Olle Schmidt (SE),...
“Driven by a sincere effort to achieve legal redress for the crimes of communism and redeem the immense suffering that affected millions of citizens under totalitarian communist regimes, we request the legislative bodies of these countries and the authorities of the European Union to adopt effective legal norms that will allow just punishment of...
Sofia, 23 March, 2012. Göran Lindblad, President of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience, visited Sofia upon invitation by the former President of Bulgaria, Mr Petar Stoyanov and associations of former political prisoners of the Communist regime. He discussed the issue of international justice and coming to terms with the crimes of Communism...
Prague / Strasbourg, 21 February, 2012. To the knowledge of the Platform, COMDOS is led by persons who served the totalitarian regime. This is in violation of the Code adopted by the founders of the Platform. The nine‐member Committee includes several persons who actively served and supported the totalitarian Communist regime. This represents a...
The Platform of European Memory and Conscience wishes to thank the following partners of the conference: the offices of Ms Sandra Kalniete, MEP and Mr László Tökés, MEP Stiftung Sächsische Gedenkstätten Robert Schuman Foundation European Network Remembrance and Solidarity Solidarność Center, Gdańsk
The conference is being convened in response to growing calls for strengthened international justice formulated, e.g., in the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism of 3 June, 2008, in the European Parliament resolution on European Conscience and Totalitarianism of 2 April, 2009, in the Declaration on Crimes of Communism of 26 February,...
5 June, 2012 European Parliament, Brussels Room PHS 7 C 50 (Please note – programme may be subject to changes) 8.30 Welcome 8.35 Inaugural address Keynote speech 9.00 – 10.30 Crimes of Communism – why does Europe need to do more? (The moral and legal obligation to provide international legal settlement for the Communist...
