MEPs believe that "recalling crimes against humanity in European history should help to prevent similar crimes in the future" and they stress that "European integration has been based on a readiness to come to terms with the 20th century's tragic history and that this reconciliation with a difficult history does not denote any sense of collective guilt, but forms a stable basis for the construction of a common European future founded on common values".
Bads Ukrainā 1932.–1933. gados, kas pazīstams ar nosaukumu golodomors, izraisīja miljoniem ukraiņu bojāeju.