Who Threatens Our Identity?
To commemorate its founding 25 years ago, PS will be republishing over the coming months a selection of commentaries written since 1994. In the following commentary from 2001, Václav Havel urges Europeans not to close themselves off “in the hope that the various winds of this world will pass them by,” but to engage with the world and assume their share of responsibility for it.
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PRAGUE – Identity and sovereignty are often discussed nowadays. But what do they actually mean? Both probably consist of feelings that a community can only be its true self when it can be so without hindrance – in essence, when a community can decide its own fate.