Category: Architects of the New Democracies

HAVEL NA HRAD – OR, HAVEL TO THE CASTLE

The Road to a Presidency “I’ll never forget that taxi driver in Munich, who drove me home from Radio Free Europe headquarters not long after Havel moved into his new residence in the Castle of Prague. As soon as he learned that I was from Czechoslovakia, he began to speak

JÓZSEF ANTALL AND KONRAD ADENAUER

The name József Antall has become almost emblematic of the change of regimes that took place in Hungary in 1990. He has become an important figure of history, with all the consequences this status involves. Historians have already begun to assess his significance, though little of this ever becomes part