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MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION (2025/2575(RSP))

On preserving the memory of the victims of the post-war communist period in Slovenia

B-10-2025-0322

on behalf of the Committee on Petitions · Rapporteur: Bogdan Rzońca

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The European Parliament resolution on preserving the memory of the victims of the post-war communist period in Slovenia condemns totalitarian crimes, calls for remembrance and dignified burials, and urges continued investigation of mass graves. It calls on Slovenian authorities to maintain remembrance days and on the Commission to fund remembrance projects, while stressing that remembrance policies are a member state competence.

Key points

  1. Acknowledges crimes by Nazi, fascist and communist totalitarian regimes and their role in shaping European history.
  2. Underlines the importance of including historical facts in educational programmes and textbooks.
  3. Reaffirms condemnation of all totalitarianism, including communism, and of historical revisionism and glorification of Nazi collaborators.
  4. Calls for preserving the memory of all innocent victims of the communist regime in Slovenia.
  5. Underlines the importance of continuing the official investigation to uncover mass graves in Slovenia.
  6. Calls on Slovenian authorities to ensure proper burials, continue investigating concealed graves, and establish memorial sites.
  7. Reiterates that 23 August is the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of All Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes.
  8. Encourages member states to support remembrance projects that foster reconciliation, while noting remembrance policies are a national competence.
  9. Recalls Commission funding under the citizens, equality, rights and values programme for remembrance actions.
  10. Believes Slovenia should have a National Day of Remembrance for victims of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, including communism.
  11. Calls on the Commission to continue remembrance programmes and for examination of Yugoslav secret service archives.
  12. Calls on Slovenia and other member states to strengthen historical memory and reconciliation based on truth.

Who is affected

  • Slovenian authorities: called on to continue investigating concealed graves, conduct dignified burials, and establish memorial sites.
  • European Commission: called on to continue funding remembrance projects and support historical remembrance.
  • Member states: encouraged to support remembrance policies and strengthen historical memory.

Figures and deadlines

  • More than 100 000 Slovenian residents were victims of violence after the Second World War.
  • Over 750 locations of hidden gravesites have been identified in Slovenia.

Legal basis: Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union