40 years on: Europe and the legacy of 1968

The events of 1968 shook post-war Europe and are still be analysed and spoken about today - a tribute to their enduring importance. Protests in Paris during the May days were the most famous although similar protest events resonated east and west across Europe. In Czechoslovakia the Prague Spring gave us "socialism with a human face" whilst in Poland students protested for reform before Soviet rule crushed dissent. Forty years on we asked a few MEPs for their recollections of that fateful year.

Wikipedia: 1968 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968

Euro/Topics, August 2008: Prague 1968 http://archiv.eurotopics.net/en/home/presseschau/archiv/magazin/geschichte-verteilerseite-neu/prag-1968-2008-08/

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