Conference "30 Years On: Insights from East-Central and Wider Europe"
03.09.2019 / 16:21 | Aktualizováno: 11.06.2020 / 14:40
The academic conference, that took take place on 24th September at the Trinity College Dublin, was organized jointly by the embassies of Poland, Czech Republic, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Romania, Slovakia, and Ukraine. The aim was to reflect on these countries' experience and share insights from the most recent history of the region with academics, policy-makers, witnesses and representatives of the general public and the international community in Ireland 30 years after the onset of the three-dimensional transformation in East-Central and Wider Europe.
Year 2019 marks three decades after the Velvet Revolution in the former Czechoslovakiaas well as the fall of the Berlin wall, which preceded the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. It also marks 20 years since the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary and 15 years since Romania, Latvia and Slovakia joined NATO; 15 years since the V4 countries and Latvia joined the EU; 10 years of the establishment of the Eastern Partnership. The year 1989 thus symbolizes the beginning of a new era especially for the countries from the former Eastern bloc.
The Czech experience from this important period was presented by Dr. Marek Skovajsa, Associate Professor at Charles University, Prague: "30 Years of Enriching Democracy: Czech Civil Society since 1989".
Konference "30 let poté" / Conference "30 years on"
Konference "30 let poté" / Conference "30 years on"
doc. Marek Skovajsa Ph.D. první zprava / doc. Marek Skovajsa Ph.D. first from the right
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