2. Armenian genocide memorial in Yerevan. Each April 24, thousands of people walk to the genocide monument and lay flowers around the eternal flame, located in the centre of the monument | EUROM
more broadly to laws or resolutions adopted by national or supranational institutions, which govern the interpretation of historical events. At European level, legislative acts concern very different subjects. They may relate to the interpretation of a historical event, the application of criminal sanctions against public statements on historical events, the establishment or modification of the status of war veterans( rights, reserved occupations and pensions), the reappraisal of the retirement pensions of those working in certain public services before the fall of communism, the establishment of material or symbolic reparations for victims of violence and sometimes for their descendants, the rehabilitation of political prisoners, the organisation of administrative purges, the setting up of commemorations, the naming of public places, the creation of memorials, the erection of monuments, the management of archives, the prompting of scientific research on a particular event, the introduction of historical events in school education, and so forth.
Besides this very wide variety, European memory laws can be classified into three groups from the legal standpoint. The first group brings together the laws and resolutions that are merely declaratory, which constitute the most numerous type of parliamentary acts in European countries. In this respect, Poland, for instance, has approximately 2,000 declaratory provisions on the past passed by Parliament since 1989( 20 % of all resolutions passed by Polish members
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