Whatever happened to democracy?
Eastern and Central Europe twenty years after. As preparations for Central European Forum 2010 get under way, the papers from CEEF 2009 in English are available online. The print edition, complete with an introduction from Slavenka Drakulić and photographs by Peter Župník is due out soon.more »
Love and Truth
On his way from the CEE Forum, Timothy Snyder's blog in the New York Review of Books describes the warm welcome Vaclav Havel got in Bratislava from a generation that was not even alive when he was President of their country, and the advice he had for the students.more »
Democracy Fatigue
(18.11. pm) What is the greatest threat to democracy? Jacques Rupnik, Václav Havel, Ágnes Heller, Ivan Krastev, Ingo Schulze, Robert Menasse, Krzysztof Czyżewski and Miroslav Kusý tried to find the answer.
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Totalitarian structures – A New Lease of Life
(18.11., am) Has Central Europe managed to liberate itself from its own past? Thierry Chervel talked to Adam Michnik, Timothy Snyder, Marci Shore, Maciej Zaremba and Slavenka Drakulić.
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Open Society in Crisis
(17.11. pm) What are the chances of sustaining freedom and democracy at a time of a faltering global capitalism, twenty years after much of Central Europe rediscovered the free market? Martin M. Šimečka chaired the discussion in which Mary Kaldor, Karel Schwarzenberg, Brigita Schmögnerovej and Wilfried Martens tried to get to the bottom of this question.
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