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Today, the European Parliament has approved the accession of ten states to the European Union. This is an historic day for Europe. Europe is united in freedom. This is a development that the CSU members in Parliament welcome. For many years, we have played a leading role in bringing about this historic event, but, despite all the rejoicing that attends this day, doubts still remain as regards the Czech Republic.
European constitutional thinking knows nothing of the idea that one injustice cancels out another. It was the European Parliament that, alone, in the course of negotiations on accession, brought to European public attention Czech law's failure to deal with the past, and, over a period of years, demanded that this be sorted out. Parliament's initiatives have been taken up neither by Commissioner Verheugen, who is responsible for these matters, nor by the German Government.
In vain do we wait for a political gesture in a spirit of reconciliation. It is the opposite that has happened, for, on 24 April 2002, the Czech parliament unanimously passed a resolution to the effect that the legal consequences of the Beneš decrees were ‘unquestionable, inviolable and unchangeable’. The Czech Republic is, of course, a country at the heart of Europe, but we have nonetheless voted against its accession with the intention of sending Czech politicians the message that the wounds inflicted in the past on the expelled Germans are still open, and that we must heal them together, in dialogue with one another."@en1
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