He served as Deputy Treasury Representative and then U.S. Commercial Attaché to France 1976–1980, where he engaged the French on various financial and economic issues, and counseled and advocated for U.S. firms.
[2] In 1989, Basora joined the White House staff as Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council, participating in reshaping U.S. policy after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
[3] He organized a high-level presidential mission to Poland to highlight U.S. support for post-Communist governments in Eastern Europe and helped design and launch U.S. and multilateral assistance programs to fund rapid economic transformation of former Soviet Bloc states.
[4] In the meantime, on June 1, the "Velvet Divorce" (dissolution of Czechoslovakia) had been announced, to take effect January 1, 1993, after which he continued as chief of mission in Prague and Ambassador to the Czech Republic.
From June 1996 to August 2004 he served as president of the Eisenhower Fellowships, a Philadelphia-based organization that supports networking between potential leaders in the United States and those in other countries.
[5] The Project was a two-year assessment of the economic, political, and social changes in Central and Eastern Europe since the fall of communism, to see if lessons learned could improve reforms in Russia and other countries.