The Czech national football team has unveiled a new kit for Euro 2016. The
home strip is meant to evoke Czechoslovak success in 1976 in Belgrade,
where the Czechs won the European Championship final on penalties against
Armed with his trusty copy of Bradshaw, Michael Portillo explores the former domain of the Habsburg monarchs, beginning in the Hungarian capital Budapest. He then travels to Austria via Bratislava in Slovakia, and in Vienna he immerses himself in pre-First World War decadence.
The documentary "Close to Evil" is the result of a collaboration between Holocaust survivor Tomi Reichental and filmmaker Gerry Gregg. It was screened at Suffolk County Community College's Ammerman Campus on Oct.
After three years of extensive renovation, the burial site of the House of
Liechtenstein in the south Moravian town of Vranov was re-opened and
re-consecrated. The unique mausoleum to the influential noble family was
Hungary will ask the European Commission to call off its decision on the distribution of refugees. The motion may have little support in the EU, but it is a clear statement of Budapest's determination.
The Czech Republic is unlikely to have a one-party government similar to those of its partners in the Visegrad Four group , because its political spectrum and electorate differ from those in Slovakia, Hungary and Poland, Jiri Pehe writes in Thursday's Pravo.
A new memorial marking the visit by the first Czechoslovak President
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk to Rotterdam in 1914 was unveiled in the Dutch
town on Thursday by Czech and Slovak ambassadors Jana Reinišová and Roman
LONDON, Nov 5 New economic forecasts from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on Thursday showed the Syrian refugee crisis was starting to take its toll on its central European heartland and other affected countries.
Member states are affected in very different ways by the refugee crisis. But all of them worry about what will happen when Germany's capacity to absorb asylum seekers reaches saturation point.
Writer Vladimír Poštulka has been presented the Josef Škovercký Award
for his novel Hřbitovní kvítí (Graveyard flowers with cream), a coming
of age story of a former cook who leaves Communist Czechoslovakia to become
