Friends and companions Grusa and Havel will take stock of 27 years of Czech, Czechoslovak, Central European, and European development in a public discussion as part of a symposium organized by the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna in collaboration with the Austrian P.E.N. Club at the end of November 2005 in Vienna. Are the questions and values that Václav Havel raised and advocated in his reflective text "The Power of the Powerless," long before he came to power as President of Czechoslovakia, now outdated, or were they written as a programmatic document at that time? Havel experienced the power of the powerful and that of the powerless, both as President and as a dissident. What is the state of the power of the powerful today, after poet Havel is no longer President, and was he powerless as President? Are the calls for respect.