Amerika na križovatke – voľby, ktoré (ne)môžu zmeniť Spojené štáty!

We invite you to an online discussion where we will talk about the upcoming US presidential election and its global implications. The elections, which are held just a few days before the debate, will decide the future of the United States, but also the impact they will have on Europe and the world.

🔍 Guests:
▪ Martin Rajec – journalist and correspondent of STVR in the USA 🇺🇸
▪ Rastislav Káčer – former Minister of Foreign Affairs and diplomat 🌍

👥 Hosted by: Jakub Škoda and Jozef Lenč
📅 October 31, 2024 at 7 p.m. :00
📍 Malý Berlin, Trnava

Learn more about the fight between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, which can fundamentally affect the future of democracy in America and the world order. Don't miss it!

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🗨️💬 MORE ABOUT THE DISCUSSION TOPIC

America stands at a crossroads - which will he go on the road? What will be the future of democracy in America and America in the new world?

Political analysts see the main theme of the election, which will take place less than a week after the debate (November 5, 2024), will be the competition between two different visions of America. President Biden, who withdrew his candidacy in favor of Kamala Harris, summed it up in his speech from the Oval Office as follows: "America will have to choose between moving forward or backward".

On the other side of the ideological spectrum stands Donald Trump and the Republican Party dependent on him. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph Ellis says that the "again" in Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan for Trump's vast MAGA political base actually stands for "the promised land that lies somewhere in the first half of the twentieth century, when white male supremacy still assumed natural order.” Some analysts even go further. They say that with a potential Trump victory comes the end of democracy in the US.

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GUEST PROFILES

🎤 Martin Rajec
Long-time journalist and Slovak media correspondent (STVR) from the United States of America. In the years 2001-2003, he worked as a TA3 war correspondent within the conflicts in the Near and Middle East in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Kuwait. In the years 2005-2007 he worked for the Czech agency A - News Report. From 2007 to the present, he has been working as the chief correspondent of RTVS from the USA, covering political, economic and cultural developments in the USA. In 2008, he published the book After the Traces of Conflicts, in which he maps conflicts from Afghanistan to Liberia. In 2012, he received an award from the Slovak Literary Fund.

🎤 Rastislav Káčer
Former Minister of Foreign and European Affairs and diplomat. He started his professional career as a political analyst at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic in 1992, from 1994 to 1998 he worked as a liaison diplomat at the NATO headquarters in Brussels. After returning from Brussels, he was director of political planning and later director general for security policy and international organizations. In the years 2001 to 2003, he was the state secretary of the Ministry of Defense of the Slovak Republic with responsibility for negotiations and the accession process of Slovakia to NATO. He was also one of the key negotiators of Slovakia's entry into NATO. Between 2003 and 2008, he served as ambassador to the USA, during which time he made a significant contribution to the fact that the United States abolished the visa requirement for Slovak citizens. He also contributed to the first ever visit of the US president to Slovakia. Between 2013 and 2018, he was ambassador to Hungary. From 2020 to 2022 in the Czech Republic. For now, his diplomatic career is serving as Minister of Foreign and European Affairs in 2022-2023.