President Miloš Zeman says the Czech Republic and Slovakia have
extraordinarily great and fraternal relations a quarter century after the
breakup of their joint state. Communicating through a spokesperson, Mr.
Saturday is the 25th anniversary of the signing of an agreement on the
breakup of the federal state of Czechoslovakia. The leader of the Czech
government, Václav Klaus, and his Slovak counterpart, Vladimír Mečiar,
The Czech prime minister, Bohuslav Sobotka, says there are no two states in
Europe today that are closer than the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Mr.
Sobotka made the comment on a Czech Television programme marking 25 years
The Civil Rights Movement in the United States sent ripples around the
world, not least in the Soviet Union and its satellites. In Czechoslovakia,
events were followed closely, as the struggle for the rights of African
The two-speed Europe project tends to split the Visegrad Four group, commentator Jiri Pehe wrote in Pravo on Thursday, adding that Slovakia might drift away from the V4 towards the EU's hard core, which would throw the Czech Republic under a stronger influence of Hungary and Poland.
In this Thursday, July 27, 2017 file photo, French President Emmanuel Macron gestures as he delivers a speech during a citizenship ceremony in Orleans, central France.
The Czech Republic and Slovakia on one side and France and Austria have
agreed that new rules need to be sought over the thorny issue of workers
from low wage countries in Central Europe being sent to work in high wage
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, looks set to come to Prague in the
spring of next year. The Czech prime minister, Bohuslav Sobotka, referred
to the visit after a meeting with Mr. Macron and the leaders of Austria and
Slovakia in Salzburg on Wednesday.