On June 13 and 14, 2003, Czechs voted overwhelmingly (77 percent) to enter the EU. We discuss that historic vote, and current attitudes to the union, with Martin Dvořák, Czech minister for European Affairs.
When it comes to diplomatic and international experience, there are few Czechs to match the resumé of Martin Dvořák. Czech Minister for European Affairs started his political career in the revolutionary year of 1989 as one of the co-founders of the Civic Forum movement in Hradec Králové. After serving as the first post-communist Mayor of the capital city of Eastern Bohemia, he joined the United Nations Interim Administration of Kosovo for several years and later became a member of the international reconstruction teams in Iraq.
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