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President Václav Havel received the International Four Freedoms Award in 1990. Unable to attend the ceremony himself, his wife Olga Havlova Splichalova accepted the award. Havel received the award because he represented men and women who did not remain silent and brought down the Iron Curtain. Then these people opened their countries to the possibilities of freedom and democracy.
Politician Jacques Delors received the International Four Freedoms Award along with Havel in 1990. Delors received the award for his good work for a united and strong Europe in a free world.
More about Havel
Václav Havel was born in 1936 in the former Czechoslovakia. First a playwright, Havel was banned from artistic and political activities in 1968. This was due to the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. In the years 1970 to 1989, he spent almost five years in prison. On 29 December 1989, Havel was elected president of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic. He became a symbol in Western Europe of the limited freedom in the Eastern Bloc and the early cessation of the Prague Spring. Havel died in the Czech Republic in 2011.
More about Delors
Jacques Lucien Jean Delors was born in 1925 in France. He held various positions in ministries and was a member of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1981. From 1985 to 1995, Delors was president of the European Commission.
Positions and articles
Havel held the following positions:
● President (1989 - 2003)
He wrote the following book:
● Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala
Delors held the following positions:
● Member of the European Parliament (1979 - 1981)
● Mayor of Clichy (1983 - 1984)
● Minister for Economic Affairs and Finance (1981 - 1984)
● President of the European Commission (1985 - 1995)
He wrote the following book:
● Combats pour l'Europe" (1996)
Other laureates from 1990
Those whose voices helped destroy the Iron curtain
Laszlo Tokes
Jonkheer Emile van Lennep
