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		<title>Byl jsem skeptik, zkušenost to změnila / Rozhovor</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[S Radosławem Sikorským o jeho víře v Evropskou unii, polských ambicích a české skepsi. Po jeho projevech v Berlíně a v Oxfordu jej komentátoři pasovali na příštího evropského prezidenta, on je však zatím ve své funkci ministra zahraničí Polska spokojený. Radosław Sikorski trpělivě odpovídal na otázky, nakonec neodolal a sám od sebe začal mluvit o kampani proti polským potravinám. Rozhovor vznikal ve spolupráci s novináři ze slovenské SME a maďarského Népszabadságu. Polská zahraniční politika udělala pod vaším vedením obrat, když se odklonila od spojenectví s Británií a USA a mnohem aktivněji usiluje o hlubší evropskou integraci s důrazem na vztahy [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Truth and Love</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo: Peter Župník The more the communist regime becomes a distant memory, the more obvious it seems to me that the essence of this world is located in a different dimension than that defined by political regimes. Admittedly, from the factual point of view, dictatorship and democracy are worlds apart, since democracy enables me to freely voice my outrage at the state of affairs and under certain circumstances &#8211; provided I am willing to expend the necessary will, time and energy &#8211; to try and do something about it. However, if I compare the horror at the rule of lies [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Destructive Forces</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo: Peter Župník While the Senate elections have somewhat dampened the fears that the Communist Party is on the rise, we must nevertheless come to terms with the fact that the time when they will be in government is fast approaching. The problem with the Communists isn&#8217;t so much the threat they pose to democracy (provided, of course, they don&#8217;t garner an overwhelming majority of seats) but rather the fact that they arouse a profound sense of shame and shatter our normal trust in the rational world. The shock of being in the immediate presence of evil &#8211; which is [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Arrival of the Left</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holidays are very important for the spiritual equilibrium of our society, Slovak bishop Stanislav Zvolenský declared, responding to the news that the newly-elected Slovak government  is contemplating cutting down the number of state holidays on the grounds that they slow down the economy. However, this spiritual equilibrium seems more like torpor, into which Slovak society has slid thanks to a new kind of holiday &#8211; a day off politics. The overwhelming victory of Smer in the March elections allowed the left of centre party to form a majority government and was met with an astonished silence, ringing with the unspoken [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>After The Velvet Divorce</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tyres quietly swish on the motorway, gliding on the smooth surface almost untouched by cars right up to the Czech state border. This is one of the few motorways in Europe that has seen the number of cars using it go down. Once it was known for long tailbacks but that was a long time ago, before two nations turned their backs on one another. In 1992, in a touching display of cooperation, these two nations erected two concrete buildings for customs and border officials on the border they shared. It was as if a river had been artificially diverted [&#8230;]]]></description>
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