Welcome to REMEMBRANCE international event

Solidarity Trade Union Contributing to Democratic Transition
Czestochowa, Poland 5-8 June 2017

BUDET examines the civic participation and democratic ownership in 5 European countries: Germany, Greece, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia in the last decade of totalitarian regimes, concentrating on specific fields in each country and making video interviews with senior activists having been involved:
1. fight for free speech, samizdat in Hungary,
2. trade unions – Solidarity in Poland,
3. democratic movements helped by the Catholic and Lutheran Church – in Slovakia and Germany,

A national and a transnational civil dialogue is aimed to be fostered refering to the past and the fight for democracy under totalitarian regimes and about the present – threats to democratic achievements, civic rights, counterbalances.