A Central European with a Swiss passport—In memory of Karel Schwarzenberg
On 11 November 2023, Karel Schwarzenberg, the former head of Václav Havel’s chancellery and former minister of foreign affairs, passed away at the age of 85. Kníže Karel, or Prince Charles, as he was often called in his homeland, was a formative figure of the Czech(oslovak) regime change and the post-communist era and was closely associated with our namesake from the turbulent period of the Central European regime changes.
