The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) head office invited the Director of our Foundation to Berlin for a round table discussion. The topic of the exchange of views on 19 March was the role of the period of regime change in European historical consciousness and the significance of the experience of regime change in shaping the future of our continent. The German federal government will soon set up a research institute in Halle on the subject, and it is counting on the experience of the countries of the Central European region during the preparatory work. The discussion in Berlin, moderated by Joachim Klose, former KAS Dresden Office Director, was also attended by Carsten Schneider, State Minister for the Eastern Länder, Professor Johanna Wanka, former Federal Minister of Education, and Marek Pravda, Polish State Secretary for Foreign Affairs.
Gergely Prőhle also visited Knut Abraham (CDU), a former colleague of Otto von Habsburg, who has been our guest in Budapest several times. He thanked us for our publication, 99 Years – 99 Photos, and shared with us some documents which, he said, were a glimpse of the more extensive collection of documents he had been keeping for decades, recounting his work with our namesake. Alongside original photographs, advertisement documents from the European election campaign 45 years ago, newspaper articles, and other documents have found their appropriate place in our archives.
