...Aliza Goldberg © World Policy Institute 2015 2015 World Policy Institute PRAGUE—The Czech guard leans against the doorway of the Staranovà Sinagoga (Old New Synagogue), Europe’s oldest active synagogue, and stares with crossed arms. A visitor has shown him an identification card with an...

... . H e is a f f ilia t e d w ith the U n iv ersity o f W isconsin, M a d iso n . Crime and Punishment in Prague The Strange Case of Karel Vas and Gen. Heliodor Pika M ilan Hauner Last June 15, the Czech Press Agency (c t k ) than 50 years have passed...

... per capita—Lithuania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Switzerland, and Luxembourg—are likely the most opportune for new technology investment. In each such case, workers produce a relatively substantial annual output with a low cost of replacement, should they decide to move on. Compiled...

... unable to find the report and I asked him fore Deakin. In speaking with the general, if he had other recollections of his mission. Benes strove to give an optimal picture of He recalled one more episode. Czechoslovak preparedness. He said the Eager to provide Churchill with the Czechs could...

... 1939 established 1994 German occupation Velvet Revolution PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC When Czechoslovakia was part of the Soviet bloc, between 1945 and 1994, theto Zionism. museum was controlled...

... some good news, though. First, the failure of the political elite to put the house in order has shaken Bulgarians out of their inertia and reform-fatigue. Second, omertà , the code of silence, has been broken. Both are essential for any government and society to stay viable. The Czech Republic...

... are known as “Travelers Prejudices the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovakia, against them remained, reflected for exam­ Poland, Ukraine, and other countries of the ple in rules restricting camping, and even former Eastern bloc. In Kosovo, after the more sedentary Gypsies, like Germany’s 1999...

.../04 of the decade its economy was one of the the phenomenon has been dubbed “market fastest growing in the world. Within a few bolshevism.”3 Vaclav Havel, the former pres­ years, gross domestic product ( g d p ) growth ident of the more stable and affluent Czech in most of the other East...

... countries were clamoring to be in the perous EU that currently numbers some 370 first wave of new entrants in the period million people, is a daunting but not unrea­ 2004—06. These were Poland, Hungary, sonable challenge. But Turkey alone has a the Czech and Slovak Republics, Slovenia, population...

... all the right papers. Indeed, I had my American passport, my Czechoslovak visa, a fistful of dollars, my notebooks, and some background material, from which I had carefully expunged any Czech contacts and sliced off the letterhead of Radio Free Europe Research, the virulently anti-communist, American...

... dominate the economics of the continent, but foreign policy of member states mostly disregards this fact. When both Paris and Berlin voiced strong support for the Ukrainian cause, those very EU members that border the country, Hungary and Slovakia, chose to side largely with Putin. After the Czech Republic...

... force an end to Serbia’s ethnic cleansing of Kosovo. NATO’s incorporation of Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic was accomplished without a serious break in the West’s relations with Russia. And the dollar remained amazingly strong against the EU’s single currency, the euro. But after...

...-distance transmission lines have been built. Meanwhile, the electric utilities must buy the missing electricity from neighboring countries such as Poland and the Czech Republic, which produce it by burning coal, and from France that uses nuclear power plants. Hence, German electricity policy is not viable...

... previously operated, or in indigenous mili­ sion-guided. This increased to 70 percent tary technology. For example, several coun­ during Operation Allied Force in Kosovo.6 tries have better chemical and biological de­ The conflict in Afghanistan has seen exten­ tection squads: the Czech Republic...

... Moscow and Washington. Polls suggest that most Russians either oppose or are at best ambivalent about a sharp turn to the West. Moreover, as Martin Walker reports in his essay, Poles, Czechs, and Hungarians are less than thrilled about welcoming Russia as a partner or eventual member of NATO...

... integration have hitherto sought Calleo has suggested, the adoption of the to avoid. This pioneer group, to judge by euro has given the EU the luxury of being, the immediate reactions of the Czech and like the United States, “liberal internally Hungarian prime ministers, might even in­ but relatively...

... Estonian or a Hungarian or a Czech working in every Scottish hotel, restaurant, or coffee shop. No doubt some are in kilts playing the bagpipes for tourists, too. And the mindset is different. Nicola Sturgeon has become Scotland’s first woman first minister, naming a cabinet with as many women as men...

..., others were peaceful. Czechoslovakia split, without conflict, into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. While border changes are important to European identity, my main concern for defining who we are as Europeans centers on properly integrating minorities and migrants across all frontiers, new and old...

... place, there is little likelihood that either eventuality will occur today. For Soviet tanks to reach Germany, they would need to traverse Poland, the Czech Republic, or Hungary, each a thoroughly reliable member of NATO. And NATO notably requires that the invasion of any single member nation be...

...-Qaeda, nor is there attacks. Subsequent investigation of the al­ any reason to believe that Saddam Hussein leged meeting has since led Czech president would pass weapons of mass destruction on Vaclav Havel to conclude that no such to a terrorist group except as an act of des­ meeting...