Platform of European Memory and Conscience

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The Platform of European Memory and Conscience is an educational project of the European Union . It is a cooperation between state institutions and organizations from EU countries in research , documentation , awareness-raising and education about the crimes of totalitarian (especially communist and fascist) regimes.

history

The platform was founded in Prague on the occasion of the summit of the Prime Ministers of the Visegrád Group on October 14, 2011. The signing ceremony took place in the Lichtenstein Palace under the patronage of the Czech Prime Minister Petr Nečas , the Polish Prime Minister and President of the European Council Donald Tusk and the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán . The aim of the platform is to "prevent intolerance, extremism, anti-democratic movements and the recurrence of totalitarian rule in the future".

On April 2, 2009, the European Parliament adopted a resolution in favor of the initiative and in June 2009 the Council of the European Union welcomed the initiative. The platform was then founded in 2011 on the initiative of the Polish EU Council Presidency . The platform's secretariat is located in Prague. The founding members were state institutions of the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, Hungary, Romania, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia, as well as several NGOs from Europe. The president is the former Swedish member of the Reichstag, Göran Lindblad . Germany is represented on the board by Siegfried Reiprich .

Members

German member organizations include the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial , the Hannah Arendt Society , the Saxon Memorials Foundation , the Union of Victims' Associations of Communist Tyranny and the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Institute of National Remembrance Cofounds the Platform of European Memory and Conscience . Poland.pl. October 17, 2011. Archived from the original on April 21, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 24, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.poland.pl
  2. ↑ Czech, Hungarian, Polish PMs sign European memory platform . Ceskenoviny.cz. October 14, 2011. Retrieved October 24, 2011.
  3. ^ European memory platform to be founded in Prague . Prague Daily Monitor ( Czech News Agency ). Archived from the original on October 28, 2011. Retrieved May 10, 2011.
  4. ↑ Press release of the StSG on the foundation in Prague October 2011
  5. ↑ http://www.memoryandconscience.eu/2011/08/18/platform-members