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"Mr President, last week the National Council of the Slovak Republic passed a resolution affirming the inviolability of the Beneš Decrees. Based on the principle of collective guilt, these decrees deprived ethnic Hungarians and Germans of their assets, of the possibility of exercising their civil rights, and often even deprived them of their personal freedom.
This was a shameful thing even at the time, but it is especially shameful that in the 21st century, 60 years after the events took place, a Member State of the European Union should have tabled this motion and reaffirmed it. Of course it comes as no surprise that this is happening in a Slovakia which is currently in the process of ratifying a law naming Hlinka, leader of the semi-fascist Slovak state, as father of the Slovak nation. It is happening in a Slovakia where, moreover, Ján Slota says the trouble is that they have not been able to rid the country of Hungarians, and that this is the source of all their problems.
I think that every democrat has an obligation – and I say this with all due respect to Mr Schulz too – to condemn all such attempts to resurrect the terrible and shameful events of 60 years ago. Thank you."@en1
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