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Topolánek, Tusk slam Berlin expulsion centre
The Czech Republic and Poland do not agree with the planned establishment of a centre documenting the history of expulsions in the 20th century in Berlin, the Czech and Polish prime ministers, Mirek Topolánek and Donald Tusk, respectively, said in Prague Thursday.
Asked by journalists whether both delegations had objections to the planned centre, Topolánek said simply "yes."
Tusk said the Polish answer would be the same unless the philosophy of the centre is changed.
Tusk called on the German government last year to give up the project of the centre against expulsions. During his visit to Berlin in December he, however, did not explicitly reject the project.
Warsaw fears the centre would mainly focus on the deportations of Germans from central and eastern Europe after WWII and would thus relativise the causes and consequences of the war.
"I understand the Czech stance. Unless we receive a satisfactory response from the German side regarding the position of the centre and its philosophy, symbolised by the name of Erika Steinbach, my answer will be the same [as Topolánek's]... Poland will be against the project as well," Tusk said.
Steinbach is the chairwoman of the German Association of Expellees and a member of the German ruling CDU of Angela Merkel.
Steinbach's expellees association initiated the creation of the centre in 2000.
Steinbach repeatedly calls for the abolition of laws on the basis of which Germans were deported from some central and eastern European countries, including the former Czechoslovakia.
Via ČTK
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