The Platform of European Memory and Conscience wishes to thank the following partners of the conference: the offices of Ms Sandra Kalniete, Mr László Tőkés and Mr Milan Zver, Members of the European Parliament Stiftung Sächsische Gedenkstätten Robert Schuman Foundation European Network Remembrance and Solidarity European Solidarity Centre Estonian Institute of Historical Memory Aarhus University
The conference held on 5 June, 2012 was 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...
5 June, 2012 European Parliament, Brussels Room PHS 7 C 50 8.30 Welcome and Greetings 8.45 Opening speech Prof. Jerzy Buzek, MEP (PL), former President of the European Parliament Audio recording (Sandra Kalniete, Jerzy Buzek); 17 MB, mp3 9.00 – 10.30 Crimes of Communism – why does Europe need to do more? (The moral and...
