On 14 February, a debate with students took place at the University of Economics in Prague. I registered to attend and received a confirmation of registration. To my surprise, I was not on the list? Fortunately, the young organizers did not call the police on me as they did on 7 November in Vienna, where I wanted to listen to a lecture by Foreign Minister Lipavsky. The students were reasonable, waited to see if anyone would come and registered me again. I did, but there was only room for me in the last row. It was, of course, unlikely that I would take part in the discussion. It was confirmed. I attach the audio recording of the whole of the EP President's speech.
I did not speak to President Metsola until afterwards, without any problems at all. I gave her my letter, which has been received and will be received by ambassadors of many countries. It concerns the security of the Schengen area and the future of Europe. Naturally, I cannot publish it yet. I am publishing below the two questions that I was unable to ask in the debate and have passed on to her personally:
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