Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Sat, 22 Aug 2026 01:20:33 +0200https://english.radio.cz/what-role-former-dissidents-current-political-life-8098107© 2026 Radio Prague InternationalA number of political scientists, sociologists, historians and other academics gathered earlier this week at an international conference in Prague to discuss what democracy means in Europe. The conference was organized by the French Social Science Research Centre and tried to tackle questions like: how important is it to vote? What forms of political representation are most democratic? One of the most interesting parts of the discussion was on the role played by former dissidents in the current political life of those EU member countries that were previously under totalitarian rule.encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/1989_havel.jpg?timestamp=1591461279 https://english.radio.cz/what-role-former-dissidents-current-political-life-8098107 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9