But we have to think over our old and new thoughts in order to purge the ones with expired validity and those which have become useless. The Europe of realities is not the Europe of our dreams, and the half-periods of ideologies are long not only here, but also in Rostock and Paris. We have to consider that here, in the eastern half of Europe, generally totalitarian regimes were blossoming and the institutions of civic society could not grow their roots too deeply. And not only in Hungary. We have to consider that we can only change the temporary decline of economy, and the fall of different social groups through domestic and international co-operation, for both within and beyond our boundaries ancient and new forces of rage are standing ready to organise new armies under the control of parties, ready to make war against the very concept of citizenship itself.
Democracy is one of the key words of the adventure of presidency.
We get insecure from time to time. Even in spite of our faith. In the West this process unfolded and took place with different antecedents and among different circumstances. But there is no country preceding us in unfolding its democracy in the East. They might need to go further back than us.