RESOLUTION on European and international protection for Nazi concentration camps as historical monuments
Date: 1993-02-11
Institutions: European Parliament, Group of the European Democratic Alliance, Group of the European People’s Party, Liberal and Democratic Reformist Group, Rainbow Group in the European Parliament
Subjects: National Socialism, antisemitism, concentration camp, heritage protection, human rights, international cooperation, monument, racism, xenophobia

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1 .
Condemns governments which, by focusing on economic competition without
necessary social rules, are willing to make workers the victims of current developments ;

the

2.
Calls for the rapid adoption of the proposal for a Council Directive on the establishment of a
European Works Council (EWC) in Community-scale undertakings or groups of undertakings
for the purposes of informing and consulting employees and for renewed consideration to be
given to the measures proposed in the Vredeling Directive, which was supported by the
European Parliament;

3 .
Calls on the Commission to recognize that social dumping constitutes a distortion of
competition and to consider how to implement provisions which, in conjunction with the rules on
unfair economic competition, would prevent companies from using social competition to boost
their profits ;

4.
Calls on the Commission to ensure that, even before the Directive on a European Works
Council is implemented, every possible effort is made to permit and facilitate dialogue between
management and labour in plants belonging to the same company and situated in several Member
States ;

5 .
Calls on the Commission to examine whether, in the light of recent incidents, it is possible
for the Community to tackle problems raised by economic liberalization in the absence of social
protection measures ;

Calls on the Commission to ensure that every possible effort is made to establish a genuine
6.
Community industrial strategy, which will ensure that
the long-term needs of European
industrial development are not subordinated to the short-term horizons of capital markets and
financial institutions ;

Reiterates its call for social clauses to be introduced into international agreements,

7 .
especially the GATT agreements ;

8 .
Asks the United Kingdom to accede to the social protocol of the Maastricht Treaty as soon
as possible and the Member States that have not yet ratified the Maastricht Treaty to do so
without delay so that the rights of workers in the Community may be better protected;

9.
Calls on the Commission to report to it as soon as possible on relocation decisions taken by
undertakings in recent years, so that it may be determined what part the distortions in the Member
States ' own subsidization systems and direct or indirect threats to workers ' fundamental rights
played in these decisions ;

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Commission, the Council, the UK

10.
Government and the representatives of the two sides of industry .

3. Concentration camps

RESOLUTION B3-0208, 0218, 0219, 0228 and 0284/93

Resolution on European and international protection for Nazi concentration camps as historical
monuments

The European Parliament,

A. mindful of the current threats to the preservation of the sites of the Nazi concentration camps

and to their special significance in historical terms,

B.

rejecting all arbitrary correlations between the reality of the Nazi camps and the uses to
which they may have been put after the war,

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C. considering that the millions of people who died in Nazi concentration camps deserve the
respect of present and future generations and that the value of the sacrifices they made for
freedom, human rights and peace must serve as an example for the education of our young
people,

D. maintaining that remaining loyal to the memory of the millions of victims entails not just
preserving the sites but also informing visitors of the widely differing origins of the people
imprisoned in these camps and the reasons for their deportation;

E. attaching paramount

importance to the conservation of all archives relating to Nazi
concentration camps, particular those at Arolsen, and to these being made available for
research purposes,

F. protesting against all current manifestations of racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia and

any return to Nazi ideologies condemned by the civilized world,

1 .
Calls on the Member States, the Council and Commission to give financial and other
support to all measures designed to preserve the special significance of the Nazi concentration
camps and to place them under European and international protection;

2 .
Calls for a survey, to be conducted under its authority, of all laws or Regulations of the
Member States designed to combat all forms of neo-Nazism, racism and xenophobia and insists
that it is the duty of the Commission, the Council and the European Parliament, as signatories of
the Joint Declaration against Racism and Xenophobia, to use all possible means to combat all
manifestations of neo-Nazism in the Community and any denial of the fact that extermination
took place in the camps ;

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission and the

3 .
governments of the Member States .

4. Human rights

(a) RESOLUTION B3-0198, 0205, 0206, 0212, 0258 and 0260/93

Resolution on the continued oppression of the Burmese people and the expulsion of refugees from
Bangladesh

The European Parliament,

A. concerned at the fate of Mrs Aung San Suu Kyi , winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and the
European Parliament Sakharov Prize in 1991 , who announced her refusal to accept any
material aid from her jailors and began a hunger strike in November 1992,

B.

seriously concerned at
Bangladesh and who have been stripped of their Burmese nationality ,

the situation of the ' Rohinyas ' who have fled from Burma to

C. noting that a national convention has been called by the Burmese constitution and that some
of the 10 political parties represented, including the National League for Democracy, have
opposed provisions for a special constitutional role for the armed forces,

D. welcoming the visit of several Nobel Prize Winners to Bangkok and subsequently (during
the UNHCR session ) to Geneva to demonstrate their concern for Aung San Suu Kyi and all
political prisoners in Burma,

E.

recalling that Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy , which won the
Burmese elections of 1990, have still not been permitted to take office and many members
continue to be held as political prisoners,