A Leeds pensioner who survived the horrors of the Holocaust and settled in England is to receive an honorary doctorate. Iby Knill, 93. of Chapel Allerton, grew up in Czechoslovakia and escaped to Hungary in 1942 as Nazi persecution of Jews accelerated.
'Watching football is not a holiday!' Queen of the WAGs Rebekah Vardy defends a year of jet-setting that has seen her take EIGHT foreign trips in ten months Looking for a property with a sea view?
Jaguar Land Rover investing $1.6 billion in Slovakia; the world's first Hyperloop futuristic high-speed railway on the drawing board to connect Bratislava and Vienna; Poland and the Czech Republic in strategic deals with China; the four-nation regional Visegrad Group establishing itself a
EU foreign affairs ministers on Friday signaled a willingness to ease tensions with Turkey after relations were damaged by a failed coup against president Recep Tayyip Erdogan in July.
The Czech and Slovak cabinets will hold a joint session in September, Prime
Minister Sobotka told commercial TV Prima on Sunday. Apart from bilateral
ties ministers will discuss security issues and the idea of a joint
Has Boris finally met his match? Bo Jo bumps into Finnish minister in Slovakia and he's even SCRUFFIER than our own foreign secretary The meeting was described as 'informal' - and it looks as if one European foreign minister has taken this to heart.
With the Three Lions' strikeforce struggling for form, Al Hain-Cole is backing the Leicester man to hit the net against a defence they failed to penetrate at Euro 2016 Having been held to a frustrating goalless stalemate when the sides met in the group stages of Euro 2016, England may hav
Britain is seeking a "strong new European partnership" with the remaining 27 members of the EU after Brexit, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has said. Mr Johnson said he wants the UK to continue to work with the EU on issues like migration following its withdrawal.
The new Czechoslovak state created from the debris of WWI understood one
thing from the outset, that a fundamental factor in the prosperity and
success of the new state would be winning the confidence of international
investors in the country and its currency.
