The presidency of the Council of the European Union is responsible for the functioning of the Council of the EU and is rotated between EU member states every six months. Beginning in January 2009 the Czech Republic will take over the EU Council Presidency. The Czech Republic´s motto for their Presidency is Europe without barriers. Its message and hope is to break down the barriers which still exist between member states including the free movement of people, goods, services and capital. and Jarmila Tiosavljevičová.
The exhibition is a part of an international program conference Prague Spring 1968. Civil Society, the Mass Media, and the Transfer of Political a Cultural Processes that took place cooperating the State Archives of Latvia, Embassy of the Republic of Latvia in Czech Republic and Institute of Contemporary History of the Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic. The exhibition shows how the events of 1968 in Czechoslovakia echoed in Latvia and the Baltics. It reveals litle known facts about Latvian protests against USSR intervention in Czechoslovakia., -red-., and Na místě autora uvedena -red-