Tackling the heritage of communist regimes is a joint European responsibility, Hungary’s Human Resources Minister Zoltan Balog told MTI on the sidelines of a conference in Germany on Monday.
After the conference on European values held in Passau on Sunday, Balog said that “European cooperation needs to be reconsidered because there is little understanding and little knowledge in terms of the heritage of communism”.
He insisted that facing a communist past is “not a private affair” for post-communist countries, but a European affair just like coming to terms with the Nazi era, because “a common Europe cannot be built without understanding each other”.
The conference was organised as part of Passau’s European Festival.
