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After 47 years of a regime that has controlled every single institution in Iran, the decisive moment will not be when it falls – but what fills the vacuum afterwards. It is not enough to abolish a regime. A revolution must also be managed further, and a state must be sustained in its most vulnerable moment.
– We did not have the luxury that Switzerland and Norway had of remaining outside the European Union, says Vaclav Klaus (84). He said the same when, as Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, he submitted the application for Czech EU membership 30 years ago. The doctor of economics does not call himself a eurosceptic. […]
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