Brussels, 05/02/2004 (Agence Europe) - Francis Wurtz, President of the European Parliament group European United Left/Nordic Green Left, has reacted angrily in a press release to the proposed resolution doing the rounds of the EPP Congress (see above) "condemning 'totalitarian Communism' and calling for candidates for political roles in European institutions from former Communist States to reveal their past activities, allowing the door of these institutions to be closed to the former leaders of these countries". The style of this text show in its authors an "irrepressible nostalgia for the Cold War", he said, wondering: "what does the EPP hope to achieve with such an outmoded political initiative. (...) Should we read into this (...) the real strategic plans of the current conservative majority of the European Union to put the eastern enlargement under the keynote of revenge, or even of a new witch-hunt?".