In my last blog post I compared the inaugural addresses of Central and East European presidents – as a follow-up, you can find links to all the speeches of the current presidents and – if available – their predecessors below. The links are to the English translations, if the text is in another language this is indicated in parentheses. I aim to update this list in the future – suggestions for further links and countries to be included are always welcome!
Bulgaria
Inaugural address of Rosen Plevneliev (Росен Плевнелиев) – 19/01/2012
Czech Republic
Inaugural address of Václav Klaus – 07/03/2003
Inaugural address of Václav Havel – 02/01/1993 (in Czech)
Estonia
Inaugural address of Toomas Hendrik Ilves – 09/10/2006
Hungary
Inaugural address of Janos Áder – 10/05/2012
(Inaugural address of Pál Schmitt – 05/08/2010 – not available)
Inaugural address of Lászlo Solyom – 05/08/2005 (in Hungarian)
Latvia
Inaugural address of Andris Bērziņš – 08/07/2011
Inaugural address of Valdis Zatlers – 08/07/2007
Lithuania
Inaugural address of Dalia Grybauskaitė – 07/12/2009
Poland
Inaugural address of Bronisław Komorowski – 06/08/2010
Inaugural address of Lech Kaczyński – 23/12/2005
Romania
Inaugural address of Traian Basescu – 20/12/2004
Slovakia
Inaugural address of Ivan Gašparovič – 15/06/2004
Inaugural address of Rudolf Schuster – 16/06/1999 (in Slovak)
Slovenia
Inaugural address of Borut Pahor – 22/12/2012
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