Recorded live at the London School of Economics on November 2, 2009
Speakers: Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, Jn Carnogursk, Vaclav Havel, Gza Jeszenszky, Markus Meckel
Key political leaders from Central Europe assessed whether the hopes
and expectations generated by the Iron Curtain's collapse have been
fulfilled. Jan Krzysztof Bielecki was prime minister of Poland in 1991.
Ján Carnogurský was prime minister of the Slovak Republic. Václav Havel
was the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the
Czech Republic. Géza Jeszenszky is a politician, diplomat and
professor, he has been minister of foreign affairs and ambassador to
the United States. Markus Meckel was co-founder of the Social
Democratic Party in East Germany and foreign minister of the German
Democratic Republic (East Germany).
