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The foreign ministers of six nations - Lithuania, Latvia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and the Czech Republic - last week asked the EU for punishment of the "public condoning, denial and gross trivialization of totalitarian crimes."
They believe communist crimes "should be treated according to the same standards" as those of Nazi regimes, notably in those countries with Holocaust denial laws.
But the EU's justice commissioner Viviane Reding says that opinion is too divided on the matter and that there is no legal basis allowing Brussels to act.
