Václav Havel

Coronavirus: The Pandemic Stress Test

Apart from the direct impact on public health, a crisis of this magnitude can trigger at least two direct kinds of economic shock.

The first is a shock to production, owing to disrupted global supply chains. Suspending the production of basic pharmaceutical chemicals in China disrupts the production of generic drugs in India, which in turn reduces drug shipments to the United States.

Democracy Digest: Two Czech Artists Who Defined a Revolution

Chramostova signed the Charter 77 petition demanding the regime respect human rights and was banned from performing in public again.

By contrast, Gott publicly urged his fellow artists to sign the "Anti-Charter" opposing the dissidents and became the "golden voice" of the conformist "Normalisation" period of the 1980s. 

Council of Europe to Announce Havel Award Winner

The Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize - which honours outstanding civil society action in defence of human rights - is to be awarded at a special ceremony on the opening day of the autumn plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on Monday.

BIRN regional director Gordana Igric is among the three candidates for the award this year.

Rama: No real change without governing through sense of duty

BELGRADE - Governing through a sense of duty and not of power brings real change, and that is precisely what has released a lot of energy in Albania and put collaboration, transparency and modernization in the forefront, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said in an exclusive opinion piece for Tanjug ahead of the Third Meeting of Heads of Government of China and Central and Eastern European count

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