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It's about values, it's about principles, it's about common values, it's about citizens' rights. And this is worth noticing because these fundamentals these fundamentals happen to be challenged for the past few years in coincidence, of course, with the European Union submerging itself in the worst crisis ever. Got started precisely when the Lisbon Treaty and the Charter of Fundamental Rights both entered into force, more than 10 years now, but precisely in coincidence, in timely coincidence with this entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, which enshrines finally the so-called Copenhagen criteria, which are the common values, which are binding for all of the member states, including fundamental rights, protection of minorities, separation of powers, independence of judiciary, and of course, rule of law and democracy. Precisely in coincidence with that entry into force, the European Union has been linking one episode of crisis after another. We had the Great Recession, we had the sovereign debt, we had the Brexit, we had the liberal regimes, the liberal regimes challenging common values. And finally this pandemic, which has posed so many troubles for mutual trust and for sticking to those common values when coming up with a common response to these shared challenges of us. But despite all that, we have kept an eye all the way on citizens' rights and that also has an impact on the contribution of the European Parliament to the so-called budgetary making process, the budgetary procedure, the special budgetary procedure. Of course, our consent is required to unleash the MFF, the Multi-Anal Financial Framework, but we are a budgetary authority according to the treaty. So we are heavily involved in discussing with the Council the figures which are to fund this role, which is to be played by citizens' rights and values in the next budget. That was part of the discussion I just heard. And I'm sure you know that the position of the European Parliament is financing the so-called rights and values program which happened to be the rapporteur as chair of the Committee of Liberty Justice and Home Affairs of the European Parliament with one billion half, one and a half billion euros of which citizens' participation, the citizens' participation, the citizens' program is to be funded with an allocation of at least 371 million euros or the coming MFF. And that is why we link with this message that we pay important to citizens' rights with the issue of memory as you have been discussing because we understand that the very idea of financing a special strand, a special program with citizens' participation helps precisely citizens' understanding of EU history, encouraging democratic participation of citizens at a European scale level. And we understand by that that it is important to reflect on European cultural diversity. The European Union is about integrating diversity. It's about united in diversity. And that takes, in my understanding, in my view, that takes a minute of thought to the very idea of contributing to citizens' understanding of European history. Where does the European Union come from? It comes from a series of civil wars at a continental level across the European Union, massacres and disasters, protracted warfare across the European continent. And of course the terrible experience of first world war, the great war, and second world war. And of course the rise of totalitarian regimes of different kinds, Nazism, fascism, but also Stalinism, totalitarian communist regimes. And it takes also a thought to commemorate the victims of those crimes. And that is why we have cared about organizations, activities, research, public debates, which dwell on these matters. And we have adopted throughout the years a number of important resolutions. Although this thought and reflection on the importance of memory and where does the European Union come from and the principles we should stick to, this is not precisely a lawmaking build of competence for the European Parliament as a lawmaker. I happen to chair the committee which has the heaviest workload in the house, the heaviest share, the largest share of the lawmaking files which are dealt with by the European Parliament in all, almost a quarter, 25%, including of course all those fundamental rights files. But the resolutions that we have adopted are not lawmaking pieces, are not acts of legislative acts, acts of legislation, but resolutions in which the majority of the European Parliament has made up its mind as to the importance of caring about historic memory as a milestone to build up a better future for Europe. The latest chance we did that was about the resolution we adopted September 2019, 19 September 2019, about importance of historic memory for the future of Europe. In this resolution, of course, we overview all of the component elements of that record of us of the European Parliament, including the statements being made by those members of the commission, of the college commissioners, which are more heavily involved in these matters. Let's say Frank Stimman's fundamental rights and rule of law, let's say Vera Yurova values and transparency in the latest years, but we remind the resolutions that we have been adopted of the past 15 years at least, ever since 2005 and onwards, but particularly when the Lisbon Treaty entered into force. We, of course, keep an eye on the framework decision which is binding law in criminal matters. Before being Lisbonized, before the Lisbon Treaty entered into force and made the European Parliament a lawmaker in criminal matters more than ever before, there were framework decisions and there is one framework decision devoted to fighting against racism and xenophobia by means of criminal law. There is also a practical declaration on the European conscience onto totalitarian regimes. We also have a directive adopted in 2012 as I was chair of this committee to protect victims of serious crimes. And there is a chapter devoted to the memory of the victims who fought against totalitarian regimes. But having said this, the main component elements of this resolution have to do, of course, with the commemoration of the terrible impact of the notorious so-called Molotov-Rivenrov pact, which was the outset of the Second World War because the Nazi regime and Soviet Union agreed to divide the territory of Poland in terms of their influences. And as a consequence of that Molotov-Rivenrov pact, August the 23rd, 39 came about the invasion of Poland, the Nazi invasion of Poland. And that was of course the signal for the beginning of the Second World War and its terrible disasters. So considering the importance of those milestones in the European history, which are so crucial to understand where does the European Union come from? The resolution condemns all totalitarian regimes, totalitarian regimes that have been taking place on Europe, causing victims and making an influence which has to be fought all the way up until the present, up until the very present day. I would highlight the importance of certain paragraphs of this resolution which I understand might be of particular relevance for the Spanish situation, for the Spanish approach to the scope of this resolution. Paragraph seven condemns historic revisionism and glorifications of those who have cooperated with totalitarian regimes, regression to fascism, the rise of racism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance across the European Union. And the resolution calls for the resolution of the European Union, and the resolution calls, calls member states to condemn all acts which undermine the values in which the European Union is founded which is tolerance, integration of diversity and respect for individual rights, fundamental rights, including of course, respect for minorities. The same goes as paragraph 10 of this resolution in which the resolution asks on behalf of the European Parliament for a common culture of historic memory, rejecting all crimes of fascist and Stalinist regimes and other totalitarian authoritarian regimes of the past in order to promote in younger generations, particularly in younger generations, a better understanding and resilience it says against the threats that are now haunting European democracy and democracy across the member states, particularly promoting culture, education, education in diversity, the openness of diversity, the understanding of European member states as open societies and including the teaching of the atrocities of Second World War, Holocaust, humanization, systematic humanization of victims of totalitarian regimes of all kinds. There is another paragraph I would like to share with you. Is the one who, which in paragraph 12, the European Parliament asked the commission to finance effectively projects promoting historic memory with all the proper resources, sufficient resources, particularly within the framework of citizens' rights and for citizens, so that values and rights are properly enhanced, not only in the commemoration and remembrance of victims of totalitarianism but also in the teaching of how it was and where do we come from for younger generations? And that's very nature of the program rights and values of which I happen to be the rapporteur and which is now negotiated with the Council in the framework of the unblocking of all these package in which MFF budget, next generation EU, we call it in Spain, the recovery fund and the rule of law conditionality, which is also a regulation which is encompassed in this package, which is to be finally unblocked by the Council in the coming days. Now they are precisely discussing all of these issues and also refer to the importance of paragraphs 18, 17, 19 of this resolution, in which we express as European Parliament our concern about the continued use of symbols, the symbolic dimension of totalitarian regimes in the public sphere. And we encourage all of the member states to remove those symbols and to get rid of them for good. In so far as there are actually a number of member states which have forbidden the public exhibition of totalitarian, fascist or Nazi symbols of all kinds. And in paragraph 18, we remind that some member states have not tackled the issue of public space commemorating or glorifying totalitarian regimes which leads to Amis' understanding, Amis' perception, if not something worse, about the importance of those totalitarian and aggressions against the founding values of the European Union which actually led to Second World War. The same goes with paragraph 19 in which we condemn, strongly condemn, the fact that there are still across the European Union political forces, political platforms, extremists, xenophobes, europhobes, whatever they call themselves which resort more and more so to a systematic distortion of historic facts to the spread of a complete reversal of facts which had been established by historians and promoting symbols and rhetorics which are not only in hindsight the totalitarian propaganda that we have seen 100 years ago and in the 30s of the 20th century as racism and anti-Semitism, but also hatred, hate speech and hate crimes against the current minorities across the European Union. Be them Roma community, be them LGBTI, be them Jewish again, Jewish communities. There is a rise of anti-Semitism also in a number of member states of the European Union which is an issue that we have to take care of for. And finally, we call the member states to guarantee the proper implementation of the framework decision against racism, xenophobia, hate speech and hate crime. We are caring more and more about hate speech and hate crime and we call member states to forbid, to ban for good effectively not only neo-fascist and neo-Nazis group but also foundations or associations aimed to glorify fascism or any form of totalitarianism. Of course, within the parameters of respect of the constitutional dispensations, legal order and national jurisdictions which are to be dealing with these matters. The point here is that we have to promote in European citizens a culture which is consistent with European values which are enshrined as binding in Article II of the Treaty of European Union. That is why the Libyan committee which I chair has put so much energy, so much energy for years to compliment the cumbersome procedure of Article VII to sanction those member states in a backsliding regression against European values. And we have of course noticed the risk of serious breach of European values that has been taking place in some particular member states of the European Union that we all have in mind with the so-called rule of law conditionality precisely to make the point that ever since the Lisbon Treaty and the Charter entered to force those values are no longer wishful thinking, are no longer requirements not only to enter the club and once you enter the club you may get rid of them but they are binding all the way. As long as you are in the European Union you have to stick to those principles. Those are the reflections I wanted to share appreciating the chance to talk to you if I may be of use, it'll be my pleasure. Thank you. Many thanks Mr. Juan Fernando a little bit. From the last year when we proposed this taking stock on European remembrance public policies we fought in terms of intellectual but also acting, interacting with different networks on remembrance and citizenship to mix these values with the uses of the past but in the present and with the challenges on the present and about the future. And we have to thank you for your works of course but also for your work and also for your fight. Because we have some challenges before the summer about this program and they are the many challenges that of course the European Union we are confronted with but we hope that this new budget that is very, very, very real good new in these times of really quite bad news all over and for not only for the program as the people from the commission and the European Parliament we have discussed these days but also for all the citizenship and the future of the democracies in the Europe and all the resolutions and the aspects dealing with historical, not only historical memory but remembrance are a lot to do with public policies nowadays and as you may know of course there is this big low in Spain who is currently being reformed and taking a lot of these points that it has to be shared in many, many, well it's my wish it's the European Observatory Memories Wish you have to be sharing many, many other countries not only in Europe of course to reinforce this system of democracies in these values and we believe on that and we are very, very thanks this year it was, it was, it's time also to say thank you to all the participants also the institutions the House of European History too Marti Grau from Jammonet House also is here I think in connection I can see also Gil Spellairo from the agency Johannes and the others from the commission it was shorter than the other years but I think it's important to keep discussing to keep reflection to repeat next year not online, we hope not online to improve all these discussions to take all these notes to make more questions about that and of course we are here to promote these events to promote these discussions and to help also has a thing done has a not only European also international organization our association and our foundation at the University of Barcelona we are working in this and we have our main tools in this main goals and Marti I give you the floor if you want to add something please from Jammonet House Thank you very much Jordi well again on behalf of the House of European History and the Jammonet House we are administratively together in the same unit the European Parliament but I would like to say thanks to the European Observatory for our memories to be again joining forces in the organization of taking stock year after year it's the third edition as Jordi has pointed out and we do hope that in next year already we'll be able to host again physically the event either in Brussels, House of European History or in the Jammonet House just a couple of very quick ideas just I think it was very important to hear from the different European institutions the programs specifically for commemoration because it's a dimension that has been maybe added more recently to the priorities and it has been very good to know that there has been a raise in the funding sorry that has been allocated to those actions and then in terms of Jammonet House also I would like to remind in our presentation we highlighted the role of Jammonet and of the Superman Declaration but also to highlight the idea that Jammonet of course is a brand it's many things but it's also a brand and it's a brand that is shared also by the institutions the European Commission has the Jammonet actions the Jammonet shares of excellence etc so that is a testimony also on how the memories attached to Jammonet have produced something have produced a brand that is very meaningful today and of course for all people and for organizations and I will maybe end with a quotation from Jammonet he used to say we don't inform coalitions of states we unite people so from that point of view of course is a message that goes directly to the core of our business here which is like remembrance and to unearth the bonds of solidarity and the overcoming of war that has been a trend in the last 70 years I should say well thank you very much Jordi again and I hope we can continue working together and again we'll be happy to accompany all the actions of the observatory thank you thank you, thank you to all the participants thank you Fernanda for your technical support also and all the team and all the colleagues who've been participating as speakers many hugs and let's