April 2, 2009: With a vote of 553:44:33, the plenary session of the European Parliament adopts a Resolution on European Conscience and Totalitarianism. The Resolution represents the first official acknowledgement of communist crimes by the European Parliament. The text of the Resolution in English can be found here.
March 25, 2009: The plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg discusses European Conscience and Totalitarianism. The transcript of the debate, together with a complete videorecording in all official languages of the EU can be found here.
March 18, 2009: The Czech EU-Presidency holds a Public Hearing in the European Parliament with the title "European Conscience and Crimes of Totalitarian Communism: 20 Years After".
September 18, 2008: The Bulgarian Parliament supports the Prague Declaration.
September 18, 2008: based on the Prague Declaration, The Greens / the European Free Aliance hold a public hearing in the European Parliament called "Totalitarian Regimes and the opening of the secret files archives in Central and Eastern Europe".
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PARTNERS:
Sweden
The Institute for Information on the Crimes of Communism
(Föreningen för upplysning om kommunismen)
Bulgaria
Justice - Bulgaria Federation
Romania
László Tökés, bishop, Member of the European Parliament (RO)
since 1989, he has been a consistent promoter of facing communist past both for the Hungarian-speaking and the Romanian-speaking public opinion