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The Civic Democratic leader (Ods) Mirek Topolanek, as a premier, defined last year as “Bolshevik” the proposal put forward by the Social Democratics (Cssd) and also supported by the Communists (Kscm) and by the Christian Democrats (Kdu-Csl) – to prohibit by law the privatisation...

Despite a drop in consumption, the Czech Republic still retains its world record title for the consumption of “pivo” – with about 160 litres per person a year In a Country such as the Czech Republic, considered the mother country of beer, it is...

From Lída Baarová to Eva Herzigová, a small atlas of the Italian-Czech relations from an erotic viewpoint. When you met them they were shy, reserved, with an indefinite look of tender lunacy in their eyes, while sipping their tea at the Louvre or at the...

First edition this year of the Gypsy Spirit award held in the Czech Republic, an initiative realized by the ministry for Human Rights whose aim has been to highlight examples of integration of the Rom community and recognize the merits of those who have...

The first time I met Václav Havel we talked about the Charta 77 group, founded in Czech Republic by intellectuals who pursued a new socio-political path beyond the ideological limits of the previous era. They promoted new ideas by rejecting the dogmas of Marxism...

To celebrate the anniversary of the Fall of the Wall, Germany pays homage to the hero of the Velvet Revolution Berlin – “International solidarity strongly contributed towards helping the dissent of East Europe. This is why today we must sustain the fight of populations...

For a deeper insight into the extraordinary chapter of history of our continent, represented by the Fall of the Berlin Wall, we turned to Filippo Maria Pandolfi, Italian (Finance, Treasury, Industry and Agriculture) minister for many years and then, from 1989 to 1993, Vice-president...

The two-day Italian visit of the Czech Premier between Lisbon and the Concordat. Great satisfaction for the EU signature by Klaus, while the ratification of the treaty with the Church seems still to be quite far off. The Czech Prime Minister, Jan Fischer, arrived...

The Obama administration plans to set up a new antimissile program which would also include, besides the Czech Republic, Poland and Romania. Prague is looking to see what is going to happen on the political scene, while Moscow and Washington are weighing each other...

Maybe the great season of the Italian cinema is no longer existing and faces, names, protagonists who have helped in changing the evolution of the cinema world-wide belong now to the history of cinema. Yet, this year, the 44th edition of the Festival of...