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Central European Forum Agenda

Luckily, you don’t have to hang portraits of a Havel, or a Klaus or a Kaczyński in the shop windows anymore and of course we no longer live under totalitarian pressure - but that doesn’t mean we’ve won, Václav Havel recently told Adam Michnik in an interview on the anniversary of the Central European annus mirabilis.  The twentieth anniversary of November 1989 ought not to be just an opportunity for empty rituals and empty talk.  After all, it was an uprising against empty rituals and empty talk.  What we want to discuss is what we “haven’t won”.