Wroclaw, 22 March 2019 – The representatives of governmental and non-governmental institutions and organisations from the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia convened in Wroclaw on 21-22 March 2019 for a working meeting of the JUSTICE 2.0 project.…
Oradea/Nagyvárad, 25 February 2019 – The 100 million victims of Communism were remembered at a memorial plaque placed on the wall of the inner court of the Partium Christian University on 25 February in Oradea city, Romania. The commemoration event was…
Prague, 25 February 2019. The Platform and its Czech members, the Confederation of Political Prisoners of the Czech Republic, the Association of Former Soldiers of the Auxilliary Technical Battallions – Military Forced Labour Camps with Seat in Prague and Prague…
Prague, 15 February – The Platform office in Prague was visited by Dr Guido Müntel, the Head of the press office of German embassy on 15 February. He and the Platform Managing Director Mr Peter Rendek discussed ongoing projects, especially…
Brussels, 14 February – On 14 February 2019 the Platform Executive Board members Ms Andreja Valič Zver, Mr Zsolt Szilágyi, Mr Wolfgang-Christian Fuchs and Mr Toomas Hiio with the President Mr Lukasz Kamiński, the Managing Director Mr Peter Rendek and the main editor of the report on the House of European History (HEH) exhibition Mr Paweł Ukielski (Deputy…
Budapest, 12–13 February. The President of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience Mr Łukasz Kamiński altogether with member of the Executive Board Mr Zsolt Szilágyi and Platform Managing Director Mr Peter Rendek visited Budapest on 12 to 13 February. During the first working day in Hungary,…
Prague, 31 January. In a decision issued by the Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic on 28 January 2019, compensation was granted to a former East German refugee who was badly injured in 1982 by the Czechoslovak Border Guard in…
Berlin, 25 January – The recent development and history of the Platform project “Justice 2.0” was introduced by the Platform Managing Director Mr Peter Rendek at the international working conference about the victims on the Iron Curtain, which took place on 24…
Brussels, 22 January – Platform Executive Board Member Mr Zsolt Szilágyi met with the Regional Minister of Justice of Valencia, Ms Gabriela Bravo and a Spanish socialist MEP, Ms Inmaculada Rodríguez-Piñero Fernández on 22 January in Brussels. In the name of…
Prague, 17 January – This week marks the 50th anniversary of the self-immolation of Czech student Jan Palach on Wenceslas Square in Prague. His act was a poltical protest against the apathy in society and the end of the Prague Spring resulting…
Cheb, 11 December 2018. The District Court in Cheb (West Bohemia) has rehabilitated four citizens of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) who, during the old regime, had attempted to escape through Czechoslovakia to West Germany, were detained by members…
