Tag: central Europe

  • The night Havel became president

    On the death of Vaclav Havel, a flashback to the night he took office; and later, a press picnic at Lany Castle when he reflected on the mistakes made during the key transitional period.

  • Bank notes

    The Eurozone crisis sparked memories of the hard lessons learned in 1992 Prague: if Czechs and Slovaks were not going to have a common economic policy, all the logic pointed to separate currencies.

  • The road to Berlin / the road to Moscow

    A footbridge across Poland’s main east-west motorway brings home the geopolitics of Poland, a flat country with no natural defences, caught between two great powers. And now, our world feels very troubled again.