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From the ArchivesBreaking down the psychological walls
Over the last two years we have listened to sounds from the Czech Radio
archives going back over eighty years. In this, the last of the series, we
look at two of the big events of the last decade - the Czech Republic’s
accession to NATO and then, five years later, to the European Union. We
start with NATO, which the Czech Republic joined in March 1999 along with
Hungary and Poland. In 2002 Prague hosted a major NATO summit, at which
seven further Eastern and Central European countries were invited to join.
At the summit, President Václav Havel gave one of his rare speeches in
English. Here is an extract:
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Current AffairsFour years of NATO membership
Four years ago today - on March 12 of 1999 - three former communist bloc
countries, the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary, became fully fledged
members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. For Czechs this was a
landmark event that cemented the country's return to the free world.
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Current Affairs CzechInvest: NATO summit good publicity for Prague
The NATO summit might be well and truly over, but the discussion continues
as to what the meeting brought to Prague - good and bad. One person very
much in favour of hosting the summit was Martin Jahn, General Director of
the CzechInvest agency, which promotes foreign investment in the Czech
Republic. We asked Martin how the summit had made the country a more
attractive place to do business.
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