The Czech Republic and Slovakia are considering finding a common deep
nuclear waste storage site, Slovak Prime Minister Petr Pellegrini said on
Tuesday. Speaking at the European Nuclear Energy Forum in Prague, Mr.
The legendary runner Emil Zátopek and his wife Dana, a javelin thrower,
made history at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki, when they won
altogether four gold medals for Czechoslovakia. The story of one of the
Prague is unofficially the third biggest Slovak city, going by the number
of Slovaks living there, the outgoing president of Slovakia, Andrej Kiska
said on a visit to the Czech capital on Monday. Over 100,000 Slovaks live
How have Czech perceptions of the EU changed since the country joined the
bloc on May 1, 2004? Has the Brexit mess impacted discussion of a potential
Czech departure from the EU? Will the country ever adopt the Euro? And what
100 years ago the Czechoslovak Assembly decided on the name of the new
republic’s currency - the koruna. Despite a variety of original
proposals, the delegates ended up being rather conservative in their
choice, voting for a name that had also been used for the currency of
Stanislav Tišer, a former Czechoslovak bantamweight champion boxer now in
his early sixties, has been running a Prague boxing club for over 25 years.
Thousands of young people – many with troubled backgrounds – have found
The Czech government will not make its annual contribution to the
maintenance of Czech war graves in Russia this year, Jakub Fajnor from the
Defence Ministry’s press department told the ctk news agency.
Czech Philharmonic marked the International Roma Day, which falls on April
8, with a special concert at Prague’s Rudolfinum concert hall on Sunday,
featuring nearly 300 participants from the Czech Republic, Slovakia,
Romania, Serbia, Sweden, and Austria.
Slovak president Andrej Kiska is set to visit the Czech Republic in on what
will be his last foreign trip as president of Slovakia. He is due to meet
with president Miloš Zeman at the Lány Chateau, he said on a debate
programme on Czech Television on Sunday.
