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Some MEPs are not satisfied with the way the EU has tackled the issue of crimes committed by the Stalinist regime (Photo: Austrian EU Presidency)

MEPs call for EU stance on communist crimes

Several members of the European Parliament have called on the EU to formally recognise crimes committed by Stalinist regimes and compensation for its victims on the same terms as victims of the Nazis.

On the first evening of the week's Strasbourg plenary on Monday (21 April), MEPs held a hearing on "crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes committed by totalitarian regimes", organised in response to a request by EU justice ministers.

In April last year, EU justi...

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Some MEPs are not satisfied with the way the EU has tackled the issue of crimes committed by the Stalinist regime (Photo: Austrian EU Presidency)

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