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As agreed, this year the Presidents will focus on the role of Central
European states in a uniting Europe and on the achievements of
transformation processes in these states. In a letter dispatched to the
participants of the meeting the President of the Republic, Milan
Kucan, proposed several topics for discussion on Europe's future,
topics common to all states represented at the meeting.
President Kucan proposes for the Presidents to seek common answers to
the following questions:
- Is Europe capable of enforcing its influence and taking on its own
share of the responsibility for the future of a globalised world?
- Is it ready to develop its own political identity enabling it to
assume such a role?
- Do EU and NATO enlargement processes already fulfil the need for a
spiritually, politically, economically and security-wise integrated
entity?
- Will the Convention on the future of Europe yield the answers to
these crucial questions?
- Does the present European order, as shaped by the actions of the
Allied coalition following World War II and by the fall of the Berlin
Wall, offer sufficient protection to political democracy, stability,
peace and security for the whole of Europe in such a way that opposing
tendencies cannot pose a threat to these values?
- Do the integration processes truly contribute to the overcoming of
European political divisions and the prevention of new ones?
- Is Central Europe capable of offering answers from its own
experience to the questions concerning both Europe's and the world's
future?
- Is Central Europe capable of better helping in the transformation
processes under way in South East Europe where security, equality
among differences, democracy and prosperity remain distant values in
the wake of bloody wars?
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