Foreign ministers from the Visegrad Four (the Czech Republic, Slovakia,
Poland, and Hungary) as well as Luxembourg and Latvia will meet in Prague
on Monday to discuss the ongoing immigrant crisis. The meeting will have a
Alameddin, a 13-year-old Syrian boy plays the violin in front of a police barricade as he march with other migrants on a highway near Edirne yesterday, on their way to the border between Turkey and Greece.
Germany's decision to reintroduce border controls on Sunday amidst feuding between European neighbours as to who should shelter hundreds of thousands of refugees has raised speculation that the Schengen system of open borders is under threat.
Defence and security company Saab has received the first order for the new Carl-Gustaf M4 system from the armed forces of the Slovak Republic. Deliveries are expected to take place during 2016.
The Shop on Main Street, which won Best Foreign Language Oscar in 1965, has
become the first classic Czechoslovak film made available on the iTunes
platform. Other gems from the National Film Archive, such as The Cremator,
Czech historian Prokop Tomek is the co-author, together with Ivo Pejčoch,
of a new book about the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia that started
in
August 1968 with the invasion of Warsaw Pact forces and ended in 1991 when
the last troops withdrew.
16, 2015. Events on the Serbia-Hungar... . Migrants reach for food being distributed, at the "Horgos 2" border crossing into the Hungary, near Horgos, Serbia, Wednesday, Sept.
Refugees who had arrived on foot from the Salzburg train station in Austria sit under trees in a parking lot after they crossed the border to Germany at Freilassing.
The British philosopher Roger Scruton began giving underground seminars at
the homes of Czechoslovak dissidents in the late 1970s. He was eventually
thrown out of the communist state but the clandestine network he
Riot police fight migrants at the border crossing with Serbia in Roszke, Hungary, yesterday. Hungarian police fired tear gas and water cannon at migrants demanding they be allowed to enter from Serbia on the second day of a border crackdown.
