Fifteen years ago on 12 March, the Czech Republic joined NATO, a moment which remains a milestone in the country’s history. Czechs had spent some 40 years under Moscow domination and it was the scrapping of the Warsaw Pact in 1991 – and the joining of NATO in 1999 – that cemented the country’s place in the West. Opening a NATO conference in Prague on Wednesday, President Miloš Zeman, made clear that NATO served an important role.
