Europe at the Crossroad: Where to go? It is a great honor for me to receive the honorary doctorate degree at the University of Athens. I take it as a personal award which reflects my political and academic activities both at home and abroad. I also take it as an extraordinary friendly gesture to my country, to the Czech Republic, which has with your great country, very close and extensive relations. They were recently underlined by our joining of the EU and NATO. For us, Greece is the cradle of democracy. It is the original source of many values upon which the Western society has been built. It was the first place on earth where free thinking was understood as a necessary precondition for the healthy development of mankind. Your Acropolis is the visible symbol of the great past of our common civilization. The symbolism hidden in your gods has become an unforgettable part of our looking at the world around us. I came here just a few days after the moment when we, in the Czech R...
"Ο πολιτισμός είναι η πορεία προς μια κοινωνία ατόμων" ......Ayn Rand