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Farewell to Eva Petschek Goldmann

Our Embassy family was saddened to learn of Eva Petschek Goldmann’s passing a few days ago at age 94. Eva was the daughter of Otto Petschek, the great banker and industrialist who built the Petschek...

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Welcoming the World’s Top Anti-Corruption Fighters to Prague

For the third time in as many years, activists, businesspeople, government officials, and others with a commitment to fighting corruption from all over the world will this week gather in Prague. They...

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Around the World in 80 Bytes

Spring is here and glorious as always in Prague. “Prague Spring” stands not only for the renewal of nature, but also for the renewal of freedom, with its echoes of Prague in 1968, of recent history,...

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The Best Defense is a Shared Defense

I recently returned from participating in the very first ministerial visit of the new Czech government to the US. Czech Defense Minister Stropnicky met in and around DC with leaders in Congress, the...

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The U.S. Embassy in Prague is Open for Business

I am often asked what the best school is for students who wish to become diplomats. Despite having attended Ivy League institutions for college and law school, I always reply that the place that best...

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Keeping the Stars and Stripes Company

When I arrived in Prague over three years ago, I knew that as U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic, and the son of a Czechoslovak Holocaust survivor, I had a personal and a professional responsibility...

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Me, Angela Merkel and Justice Roberts

What do we have in common?  We are all recipients of the Charles University Law School medal. Here I am receiving mine today at my sixth appearance at the school, this one to lecture to US law students...

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The Other World Cup

Alex Barrasso, my Acting Counselor for Political and Economic Affairs, returned recently from an international chess tournament in Greece. I know what you, the reader, must be thinking: with all that’s...

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Making Us All Proud

The outstanding detachment of U.S. Marines who guard our Embassy in Prague (they were ranked number one in Europe by the Corps last year) live together in a Marine House. Last week I had the...

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Greetings from the US – Czech economic and commercial dialogue, and more!

All of us at embassy Prague are very proud of the fact that by working hard with our Czech partners we have achieved an increase of over 100% in bilateral trade between our two countries over the past...

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