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...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...

... . 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...

... 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 mobilize 17 active and 17...

... third man to death and forcing the Roma settlement policies, some Roma continued inhabitants out of the village. Similar inci­ to be nomadic or semi-nomadic (in Britain dents have been documented in Hungary, they are known as “Travelers Prejudices the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovakia...

..., Democracy 2.1, an innovative way of voting that my team is developing with Czech and international partners, increases enormously the likelihood of voters casting votes for their eventual representative. Moreover, the winners are incentivized to compete with one another to provide the highest quality...

... 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 European countries Republic...

... 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 of almost 80...

... 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 by Chason Hecht...

... 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-backed propaganda source, that would likely have landed me in hot water with the ever-vigilant border police. I had also...

... 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...

... 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. The more reason...

... 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 autarkic externally.”5...

..., 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 on a pan-European scale. In addition to transmission...

..., 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, Ger­ sive use of PGMs...

... to 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...

... 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 answered by a reply by all member nations—the Article Five...

..., chose to side largely with Putin. After the Czech Republic joined their dissent, a ghost of an iron curtain then began to divide Europe. The latest victims of Soviet westward aggression applauded the annexation of Crimea and devastation of Donbass. Whatever one’s political leanings, it’s hard to take...

...—and date—all the Europeans who come to work and improve their English. There’s a Pole or an 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. Under Blair, the Labour Party, with devolution...

..., 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...

...-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...