On September 12th, 2006 Grigorij Mesežnikov, President of the Institute for Public Affairs and Martin Bútora, Honorary President of IVO, participated in the panel discussion Slovakia 100 Days after Elections, sponsored by the Slovak-Austrian Chamber of Commerce. In their talks they focused on the background of formation of the current ruling coalition, its first steps in politics and their impact to overall domestic political development and international position of Slovakia. Mr. Pavel Haulík, Director of the MVK polling agency also contributed to discussion which was chaired by Mr. Michal Berko.