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09/01/2009

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Tabery, Erik

2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.

Respekt - Czech Republic | 23/01/2008

US missile defence and NATO

In the Czech Republic, opposition to a radar station for the US missile defence system in Central Europe is growing. That doesn't make it easier for the government to win over a majority in Parliament to support the project. It would be helpful if NATO would promote the building plans, says Erik Tabery. "At the NATO summit meeting in April in Bucharest, Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek wants to get the Alliance's public support. But even Czech diplomats admit that it would already be a success if the Alliance would just say it is considering the project. NATO should not completely leave the Czechs in the lurch. Because then the radar and rockets would be built in Poland. But that would draw NATO even closer to the game. Warsaw places great emphasis on good relations with America and pays far less attention to the attitudes of other countries."

Respekt - Czech Republic | 15/01/2008

Czechs agonize over probing the history of totalitarianism

57 Social Democratic and Communist members of parliament have submitted a constitutional challenge to the creation of an authority for research into the totalitarian regime. Their reason: True, the 1950s in former communist Czechoslovakia were terrible years, but the 1970s and 1980s were bearable. Erik Tabery is amazed that there is no protest against this position: "Czech intellectuals have been waiting for years for a probing of the past, based on the German model: For the young to ask the older generations what they really did back in the old days. But that's not happening at all: Instead, the older ones come along and demand that the courts proclaim that these years were not so bad after all. And the younger ones go along with it; it's basically all the same to them. They'd rather take arms against the American Satan."

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