Göteborg / Brussels, 11 March 2014. Platform President Göran Lindblad received an answer to the letter of 7 February 2014 with an urgent call to send a permanent EU observer mission to Ukraine, which was addressed to EU Council President…
Damit wir nicht vergessen – official presentation in Berlin on 1 April 2014
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,…
70% of older secondary school students in the Czech Republic do not think that enough has been done to come to terms with totalitarianism
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…
Czech PM receives Platform Board
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,…
Slovenian archives must remain open
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…
Platform calls for permanent EU observer mission to Ukraine
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…
Lest We Forget – official presentation in Prague
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…
Kritik an Prager „Stasi-Behörde“ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 16 January 2014
Europäische Institutsgemeinschaft schließt Tschechen aus (Criticism of the “Stasi-Institution” in Prague. European association of institutions excludes the Czechs) kps. WIEN, 15. Januar. Das tschechische Institut für das Studium der totalitären Regime (Ustr), zu dessen gesetzlichen Aufgaben die wissenschaftliche Aufarbeitung der…
Platform suspends Membership of Czech Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes
Prague, 14 January 2014. Following a decision by the Council of Members, the Platform suspended the Membership of the Czech Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes today. The reason is that the Institute is not willing to dispel a…