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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8489

24 June 2003
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/czech republic
Verheugen welcomes declaration of reconciliation confirming "the very essence of European integration"

Brussels, 23/06/2003 (Agence Europe) - Last Friday, Commissioner Günter Verheugen (enlargement) welcomed the "declaration of reconciliation" published the day before in Prague by the Czech government, a declaration in which it affirms that the events and deeds today considered unacceptable but which occurred during the Second World War and just after 1945 (such as the Benes Decrees, for example) "no longer weigh upon the cohabitation of European nations" in the future. Without citing any...

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