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Activties 2004
Youth, Education and Culture in the New Europe
Wisdom and Knowledge
The Existential Quest
Developing Economies with Human Capital
Basic Business Ethics: State and Subsidiarity
Frank S. Meyer: Speaking of Freedom
My Experience with Communism
Otto von Habsburg
Human Dignity and the Failure of Communism, Stephane Courtois
Human Dignity, Vaclav Havel
Europe of the 20th Century and Guidelines for the 21st
Wladyslaw Bartoszewski
Communism and the Human Person, Mart Laar
Solidarity Movement, Philosophy and Success, Lena Lipowicz
European Identity and the Free Movement of Persons
Dr. Roman Joch
Communism and Europe: Yesterday and Today
Jozsef Szajer
Law and Freedom in the Central EUropean Context
The Rule of Law and Free Society
Fifteen Years after the Velvet Revolution
New Perspectives On Free Society
Formulating a Foreign Policy for the West: a Conservative View
Population Implosion in Europe: Catastrophy or Challenge?
Politics and Peace Initiative
(recent activity)

Communism and Europe: Yesterday and Today
November 6, 2004
Dr. Jozsef Szajer

Jozsef Szajer is currently Vice President of the Hungarian National Assembly, Vice president of the Hungarian political party Fidesz and head of the Foreign Affairs Cabinet of Fidesz. He is also a Member of the European Parliament and of the Political Bureau of the European Peoples Party.

EICEE sponsored Dr. Szajer to speak at the conference Human Dignity and the Failure of Communism. Having grown up in Hungary, he was able to share personal experience of communism with the next generation of Central and Eastern Europeans.

His talk highlighted one of the differences between communism and democracy, which most profoundly affects the quality of society. Communism, the speaker argued, works against the elements which bind human beings together: against family, against community and against the nation.

"I have regained the feeling that it is possible to build a new country based on moral standards rather than degrading to a technocratic society that neglects everything that is related to philosophy, which is often regarded as something useless.”
Anar Ahmadov, Director of Institute of Politics, Khazar University
PhD cand. Political Science, Khazar University, Azerbaijan

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