1968
2008, war and independence: our ‘best’ of some of the worst events
January. Franco-German MEP and former student activist Daniel Cohn-Bendit tells the collective conscience to get over the 1968 riots. August. Russian bombs pepper Georgia. February. Kosovo becomes the world’s newest country with amidst divisions within the EU, a fact which was consolidated by the Irish people’s ‘no’ vote to the Lisbon treaty – September. It hasn’t been the most sparkling year for the EU
- Read the special edition 2008, war and independence: our ‘best’ of some of the worst events
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- Dublin: why 862, 415 Irish voted no to the Lisbon treaty
- Daniel Cohn-Bendit: 'Stop the comparisons with 1968'
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Petr Uhl: ‘I prefer to call it the Czechoslovak spring’
He stood on the barricades of Paris and Prague in 1968 and later produced the Charter 77 civic initiative. The man who once smoked cigarettes in prison with former president Václav Havel looks back over his sixty-six years, but also to Europe and the future
1968, 1968 riots, pravo, communism, petr uhl, journalist, human rights
