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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

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{26/04/2006}26.4.2006 0027/2006

WRITTEN DECLARATION

pursuant to Rule 116 of the Rules of Procedure

by Daniel Strož

on the unacceptability of disrupting relations between EU Member States on the basis of allegedly unresolved problems connected with the Second World War and its direct consequences

Lapse date: {26/07/2006}26.7.2006

0027/2006

Written declaration on the unacceptability of disrupting relations between EU Member States on the basis of allegedly unresolved problems connected with the Second World War and its direct consequences

The European Parliament,

– having regard to Rule 116 of its Rules of Procedure,

A. whereas the Presidential Decrees of 1940-1945 were one of the fundamental expressions of the legal continuity of Czechoslovakia during its occupation by Nazi Germany, and whereas those decrees form an integral part of the legal order of the Czech Republic,

B. whereas the post-war resettlement of the majority of the German population of the Czechoslovak Republic and the measures directly connected with it were founded on a decision taken at the Potsdam Conference as well as on the decrees referred to above,

C. whereas not only the Czech Republic but also Germany and Austria have repeatedly declared their desire not to harm relations with each other on the basis of issues from the past such as, for example, war reparations,

D. whereas in 2002 the European Parliament acknowledged, on the basis of the opinion of experts headed by Jochen A. Frowein, that the above-mentioned decrees were no obstacle to the Czech Republic’s accession to the European Union,

E. whereas organisations exist in both Germany and Austria (‘Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft’) that systematically attack the post-war arrangement in Europe, including the existence of the above-mentioned decrees and other legal acts, regarding which they make various claims against the Czech Republic and endeavour to refer these matters to European institutions, thereby continually disrupting neighbourly relations within the EU; this fact is demonstrated by the conclusions of the meetings of the highest bodies of these organisations in March and April 2006,

F. whereas the activity of the above-mentioned organisations is supported financially and politically by the governments of the Federal Republic of Germany and Austria,

1. Calls on the governments of Germany and Austria to terminate their support for the ‘Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft’ organisations, which continually disrupt neighbourly relations between the countries concerned and, therefore, within the EU,

2. Instructs its President to forward this declaration, together with the names of the signatories, to the parliaments of Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic.

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