Ten Years of the Dominik Tatarka Award
[01.05.2004, Peter Zajac, DOMINIK TATARKA AWARD]

Ten years is time long enough to stop, look back and ask to which extent the prize has met its original intent. When considering, together with Martin Bútora and Martin M. Šimečka, establishment of the Dominil Tatarka Award, in 1994 we had an obvious reason for it...

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The European Union: Seven Glimpses of Opal
[01.12.2002, Peter Zajac, PAPERS AND STUDIES]

The article deals with deeper aspects of European integration at the moment of the accession of Slovakia to the EU...

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The European Union: Seven Glimpses of Opal
[01.12.2002, Peter Zajac, EUROPEAN UNION AFFAIRS]

The article deals with deeper aspects of European integration at the moment of the accession of Slovakia to the EU...

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Everyday Conservatism
[01.01.2002, Peter Zajac, CONSERVATISM]

Conservatism is connected with respect towards traditions and with an aversion towards change. The Conservatives are enemies of the modern 'carousel' based on continuous exchanges of the old for the new where the new becomes old and gets exchanged for the new new, gets older, becomes old ... and all this over and over again...

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Awareness of Commitment
[01.01.2001, Peter Zajac, CONSERVATISM]

After 1989, conservatism in the post communist countries found itself in a paradoxical situation. The conservatives’ objective was a conservative-liberal constitutional revolution. The revolution, conservative, in the sense of a radical return to the European traditions and liberal, meaning the establishment of the rule of law representing foundations of modern Western civilisation...

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