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Brussels commits to the PSOE to promote democratic memory in the EU

by AI | 21.Aug 2024 | Europe in brief AI

The European Commission is committed to continuing its work, always within its competences, to continue promoting at the European level “the shared memory of the crimes committed by totalitarian regimes.”

The European Union's Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, attends the media upon his arrival at the closure of the seminar Public Service of Justice in times of transformation, at the Permanent Module of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU), in Ifema, on October 10, 2023, in Madrid (Spain). Photo: Jesús Hellín - Europa Press

The European Commission has committed to continue working, always within its competences, to continue promoting at the European level “the shared memory of the crimes committed by totalitarian regimes”.

This was stated by the Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, in a written response to a question posed by the Spanish socialists in the European Parliament, after in the Autonomous Communities of Aragón, Castilla y León, Comunidad Valenciana, Baleares, Cantabria, and Extremadura, governed by the PP alone or in coalition with Vox, proposals have been made to repeal regional laws on democratic memory and replace them with the so-called “laws of concord”.

“The Commission is committed to contributing, within its competences, to the promotion of the shared memory of the crimes committed by totalitarian regimes in Europe,” recalls Reynders in his response, released by the European socialists, referring to a previous one following the repeal of the Democratic Memory Law of Aragón.

The Commissioner for Justice has stressed that “safeguarding the common memory of the crimes perpetrated by these regimes is essential to support the EU’s joint commitment to safeguarding EU values on human dignity, fundamental rights, the rule of law and democracy for current and future generations”.

For all these reasons, the European Commission “will continue to support projects across Europe, within the framework of the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme, that address the history of totalitarian crimes and foster historical memory,” although Reynders has recalled that “historical memory policies are the competence of the Member States”.