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...Rumsfeld's trip to Brussels noted, it may now be no easier to convince the Senate than the Europeans of the virtue of missile defense. And it took extensive lobbying by the Clinton Administration to get the Senate (then under Republican control) to welcome Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic into NATO. Persuading a Democratic Senate to extend an invitation to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in the face of Russian opposition won't be easy...
...were sharp and unresolved, as they were always going to be in response to Washington's summary withdrawal from a treaty 10 years in the making that had been signed by the previous president. Of course, only the U.S. could get away with that position - if Italy or the Czech republic did that, those countries might find themselves facing sharp economic pressure to relent, but that would be unthinkable in the case of the world's largest economy. So the exasperated Europeans were forced simply to "agree to disagree...
Schoch is one of a new generation of global executives commuting to class with passport in hand. An American whose primary residence is Prague, he manages some 300 employees across the Czech and Slovak republics for GTS, a firm based in London with offices in the U.S., and operates the largest fiber-optic network in Europe. But for 13 one-week stays over two years, Schoch is jetting into Barcelona to join 80 classmates of 24 nationalities...
...that seems to need it. (Margaret Thatcher endorsed Berlusconi, and no government smacked more firmly than hers.) It would be nice to reply that economic prosperity depends on the trappings of constitutional liberalism. And there are examples where that seems to be true. Since 1989, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic, the three core economies of ex-communist central Europe, have seen economic prosperity and political freedom march together. Indeed, democracy came to central Europe before economic reform did. But that isn't always the case. Consider Mexico. For 15 years, from 1985 to 2000, its protectionist, corrupt economy...
...Idoox Private company based in Prague, Czech Republic CEO: Roman Stanek What it does: Makes Web applications and service platforms that promise to revolutionize the dynamics of selling products and services online Why it is hot: The market for hosting infrastructure and services online is expected to grow to $400 billion by 2004 www.idoox.com...