French President Emanuel Macron met with the Czech and Slovak prime
ministers in Paris on Saturday, on the occasion of celebrations in France
marking the birth of Czechoslovakia 100 years ago.
EDUA Group, this country’s largest private educational group, has taken
over the branches of James Cook Languages in the Czech Republic, Slovakia
and Poland, the companies announced on Thursday.
A special “presidential train” departs Prague’s Masaryk train station
on Thursday on a tour to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding
of Czechoslovakia. The train will have nine historic carriages, including
The prime ministers of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland
will meet with French President Emmanuel Macron before the opening of a
two-day EU summit on migration in Brussels on Thursday.
Wednesday is the 50th anniversary of the publication of the Two Thousand
Words manifesto, one of the key symbols of the Prague Spring movement. The
declaration was written by author Ludvík Vaculík and appeared in several
Czechoslovak newspapers on June 27, 1968.
Associations of former political prisoners and other organisations paid
their respects to the victims of Czechoslovakia’s Communist regime at a
graveyard in the Prague district of Ďáblice on Tuesday. The event was
The 16th all-Sokol slet (gathering) begins in Prague next Sunday and will
bring together thousands of people from the Czech physical fitness
organisation, which was founded in 1862. Among those attending the
Petra Kvitová has won her fifth tennis title of the season. The Czech
player came from behind to defeat Magdaléna Rybáriková of Slovakia 4-6
6-1 6-2 on Sunday to lift the title at the Birmingham Classic in the UK.
Czech Radio’s Hit of the Century poll has reached the final. Since
January listeners in the Czech Republic and elsewhere have been choosing
from among the best songs released in the Czech lands from 1918 to the
David Short first came to Prague as a student over fifty years ago. He
remained for the best part of six years, experiencing at first hand the
Prague Spring and then the Soviet-led invasion. He went on to become a
