Lithuanian lawmaker wants
Kaliningrad returned to EU Linas Balsys, a Lithuanian lawmaker suggests
that the European Union should be seriously considering how it can take back
the small region of Kaliningrad that is now part of Russia and "return" it to
Europe. -
his
views known at a conference: "The World in 2017: The view from Vilnius". Vilnius
is the capital of Lithuania. He said that Russia had lost its legal right to the
Kaliningrad Region after it annexed Crimea. He said now the status of the
Kaliningrad Region (oblast) that was formerly known as East Prussia needed to be
discussed at the international level.
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EP criticises Czech opt-out from Lisbon Treaty
Strasbourg, May 22 (CTK) - Former Czech President Vaclav Klaus's effort to push
through an opt-out from the Lisbon Treaty was unfortunate and this is why the European
Parliament's negative stance on it is logical, Czech MEP Zuzana Brzobohata (Social
Democrats, CSSD) said yesterday. -
Brzobohata, who represented the European Social Democrats in a debate in the
EP's constitutional committee, has opposed the opt-out since the beginning.
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The Local Europe,
Germany - Society
- 24 Jan 2013
Russian day care on graveyard sparks outrage
The decision to build a new kindergarten atop an
old German cemetery in what was once East Prussia has sparked outrage, forcing
Russian authorities to exhume and rebury 150 bodies before work can continue. -
Barely an hour after digging into the ground in
Baltijsk, a small coastal town near Kaliningrad, workers were faced with bones
of German residents past, buried when the town was called Pillau. -
Historians caught wind of the discovery and the
town administration found itself in the firing line of local outrage. “The
graveyard is clearly marked on up-to-date maps,” Valery Limonov, a history
researcher.
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the Telegraph -
Europe News - 22 Jan 2013
Czech election candidate questions post-war expulsion of Germans
A candidate in the Czech presidential elections
has found himself the target of fierce criticism after he stirred up a
historical storm by questioning the morality of the post-war expulsion of
millions of Germans. -
Touching on one of the most sensitive subjects in
Czech history Karel Schwarzenberg challenged the legitimacy of the
Benes Decrees. Named after Edvard Benes, the first post-war president of
Czechoslovakia, the decrees led to the forced deportation of some three million
of ethnic Germans and Austrians from Czech lands ... -
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