Politics

Almost certain the relative majority of the Social Democrats. Among the many possible scenarios, also the return to power of the Communists, just over twenty years from the Velvet revolution. Just over a month before the elections for the renewal of the Chamber of...

Diffidence by the Czechs towards Europe. A bluff or a question of integration? From enhanced cooperation to de facto exclusion: how to enable growth of the Union despite divisions It is quite understandable that Czechs fear integration which necessarily includes rules. Frankly speaking, though,...

Obama and Medvedev have signed, in the Czech capital, the Treaty on strategic arms reduction. For some politicians it represents a setback to the role of the Country in Us foreign policy. The American president intended to reassure the leaders of the Central European...

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...

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...

The Czech export of arms and weaponry is running at full steam, according to the newly published data from the Ministry of Industry and Trade. Sales to foreign customers total for 4.9bn Crown, which is the best result since the existence of the Czech...

Concern over the Czech Republic political class and chance to pursue the dream of the Velvet Revolution while the economy is slowly climbing along the path of recovery Scandals, spying, stolen photographs, eggs and stones at the centre of the debate between the parties....