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Seamus Kearney – euronews Jiri Pehe – Former Czech presidential advisor euronews: “The Fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago heralded a massive change in Germany but also had a ripple-on effect in other countries, including...
page 1 of 2 by Anita Komuves In some corners of the old Iron Curtain, it’s not just frustrated pensioners who still hum the “Internationale.” The activists call one another “comrades” and are members of the Left Front, the...
And much more paperwork. A TOL special report. by Thomas Orszag-Land Teaching One History, Living Another In the classroom, the strong hand of the state has given way to the mixed blessings of freedom. A TOL special report. by...
The past weekend saw the establishment of yet another political entity on the Czech scene- the Citizens’ Rights Party founded by supporters of the former prime minister Miloš Zeman who is set to come out of retirement. It comes...
Lisbon treaty has been eight years in making and is on brink of coming into force, but not if Klaus gets his way For a man standing alone between Europe and its future, Vaclav Klaus is playing hard to get. Last week a trip to...
How the Czech president became Europe's public enemy number one. BY JIRI PEHE | OCTOBER 12, 2009 After two years of debate, referendums, furious revision, and campaigning, the fate of the Lisbon Treaty to reform the European...
A TOL special report. See more special coverage of the anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain at our 20 Years After website. MOSCOW | I remember that in the early stages of perestroika, many of us in the Soviet Union...
Czech President Vaclav Klaus’s threat to block the Lisbon Treaty may damage the country’s standing six months after its government collapsed while holding the European Union presidency, said political analyst Jiri Pehe.
With the fate of the EU resting in the hands of the Czech Republic, the country has become the focus of media attention. But as it parades in the limelight, the young democracy cannot hide its many troubles.
A TOL special report. The problem of “democracies without democrats” is as real today as it was when Masaryk's new state rose from the ashes of World War I. The new European democracies that emerged from the upheavals of 1989...
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