Professor Igor Lukeš teaches at Boston University and has written
extensively on modern Czech history, the Cold War and contemporary
developments in Central and Eastern Europe. When we spoke recently the
Helena Vondráčková, one of the Czech Republic’s biggest pop stars, is
celebrating her 70th birthday. Vondráčková has been popular with Czech
audiences since 1964, when she won a national talent contest with a Czech
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives for an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday, June 22, 2017. European Union leaders are gathering for a two day summit to weigh measures in which to tackle terrorism and migration and to create closer defense ties.
Budapest [Hungary], June 23 : The Embassy of India is hosting a three-day second edition of the "Ganga-Danube: Cultural Festival of India" and Third International Day of Yoga in 15 cities of Hungary from June 23 to June 25.
Fifteen people, including Czech speed skater Martina Sáblíková or
honorary consul to Scotland Paul Millar (who is behind the creation of a
memorial recognising the sacrifice of the Czechoslovak paratroopers in
European Union leaders meeting in Brussels will try to gloss over their feud about who takes in refugees, a change of tactic that some diplomats have linked to Germany's election in September.
Poland is seeking talks about the future of the European Union with Emmanuel Macron after the French president criticized the former communist nation's approach to EU membership.
In 1972 the Hungarian artist Tamas Szentjoby placed a chair outside the Intercontinental Hotel in Budapest, bound his mouth with a leather belt, and took a seat. About 20 minutes later the police arrived, as was to be expected in this Eastern bloc country.
France expressed interest in a closer dialogue with the countries of the
Visegrad 4, Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka confirmed on Friday after
a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron at the EU summit in
Local tile producer Wetterbest, which is controlled by investor Dragos Irimescu, recorded a turnover of EUR 15.5 million in the first half of this year, up 65% compared to the same period last year, according to the company's estimates.
