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.
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-