The conference organized under the auspices of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Lubomír Zaorálek, was held on the 13-14th April 2016. It aimed at addresing the issues of overcoming global threats, developing inter-cultural and intra-cultural dialogue, including inter-religious and intra-religious respect and discussions, enhancing justice, mutual cooperation and stability. The conference was attended by Czech and foreign experts in social sciences and humanities, ambassadors of EU countries and Muslim states as well journalists. The theme of global threats requires an analysis and ideas for finding solutions to various cultural, social, political, religious, military and other conflicts. and Marina Hužvárová.
Belgium took over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union on July 1, 2010. The Belgian Presidency is focused on these major projects: Implementation of the Treaty of Lisbon, which comes into force on December 1, 2010; launch of the EU 2020 strategy, which will guide EU policies in the coming decade; pursuit of international climate and energy negotiations; implementation of the Stockholm Programme in the areas of justice, asylum and immigration; continuation of enlargement negotiations; and, preparation of the 2011 budget and mid-term revision of financial perspectives. and Jana Vaňová.
In this issue, we feature an interview with Markéta Pokorná, representative of the Ústí Region to the EU, and with Jiří Kolman, who represents the South Moravian Region to the EU. These representatives of the Czech Regions to the European Union arrange contacts and provide information about current events in European policy, present and uphold the interest of their regions within the institutions of the European Union, establish co-operation between the regions and other European regions and promote the region abroad. and Lenka Havlíčková, Michaela Vlková.
Významný politik Československé strany národněsocialistické Prokop Drtina (1900–1980), syn filozofa a politika Františka Drtiny, patřil dosud k četným politickým osobnostem Československa, které čekaly na svůj životopis. Debutující historik Ondřej Koutek podle recenzenta napsal zdařilou, pozitivisticky laděnou standardní politickou biografii, v níž zachycuje Drtinovy osudy především jako veřejného činitele, přičemž největší pozornost věnuje jeho působení ve funkci ministra spravedlnosti v poválečné vládě Národní fronty. Jeho kniha je argumentačně vyvážená a opírá se o reprezentativní soubor pramenů a literatury., The important politician and member of the Czechoslovak National Social Party, Prokop Drtina (1900–1980), the son of a politician and philosopher, Professor František Drtina (1867–1925), had hitherto been one of the eminent figures of Czechoslovak politics who was still without a biography. Making his publishing début, the historian Ondřej Koutek has, according to the reviewer, achieved a successful, positivist, standard political biography in which he portrays Drtina’s life, chiefly as a public figure, while paying most of his attention to Drtina’s work as Minister of Justice in the post-war government of the National Front. The argumentation of Koutek’s book is well balanced, based on a representative selection of primary sources and secondary literature., and [autor recenze] Jakub Rákosník.