CONFERENCE DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF CZECH CONSERVATIVE POLITICS

Civic Institute conference „Reflections on Development of the Czech Conservative Politics in the 1990ies“ was held at the Mostov Chateau in Western Boehmia on November 2-4, 2007. On the first day of the conference, on Friday November 2 in the evening, Czech Deputy Prime Minister Alexandr Vondra presented his view on the Czech conservative politics in the early 1990ies, when he had been an advisor to the former Czechoslovak President Vaclav Havel. On the second day of the conference, on Saturday November 3, Representative Marek Benda recollected his memories on the conservative policies of the Christian Democratic Party and the Civic Democratic Party. He was followed by Mr. Ivan Mašek, former leader of the Civic Democratic Alliance Parliamentary Group, and his analysis of that party’s then priorities. Its former Minister of Privatization, Mr. Tomáš Ježek, lectured on how the privatization in the Czech Republic had been won, as well as on pitfalls threatening it. Professor Miroslav Novak, Rector (President) of the private university Cevro Institute, referred on the right-wing of the Czech party-politcs system. Finally, the conference was addressed by the Civic Institute Director Roman Joch and his talk on the future of the Czech a Western conservative politics.