Former Czech football international Pavel Nedvěd, the founder of the
babybox system in the Czech Republic Ludvík Hess and pop singer and former
actor Václav Neckář are among those expected to receive state honours on
Despite worldwide outrage, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is proving unwilling to walk back his controversial comments about Hitler and the World War II-era Palestinian mufti of Jerusalem, insisting that Haj Amin al-Husseini played a central role in encouraging the Nazis to exterminate the Jew
The central European countries of Slovakia and Hungary are divided by a common 420-mile-long border. But that dividing line, and other European national borders, may now be a little more blurred due to a key ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union .
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kick in the butt, Czechs biggest fashion sin on the runway in Paris, a
Slovak nun puts the Skoda Fabia to the test, why do Czechs start their day
In the course of a life that spanned over 90 years, the writer and
translator Heda Margolius Kovály survived the very worst that the
twentieth century could bring: first Auschwitz and then the anti-Semitic
Eva Pollak's autobiography "Girl of the Danube" is "the progression in the life of a child going from prewar to postwar Hungary." Having bore witness to the two historical eras, she recounts the realities of everyday life for many who were rooted in inescapable poverty.
The widely expected victory of Jarosław Kaczyński's Law and Justice Party in the upcoming parliamentary elections in Poland Sunday will mark the end of an era in the history of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia - or "New Europe", to use a
Congratulations, you're now registered! Let us know what news and updates you want to hear about and we'll send them straight to your inbox. Given that he became one of the country's most wanted criminals, Zdenko Turtak remains something of a troubling unknown quantity.
A Czech delegation on their way to unveil memorials to Czechoslovak
legionnaires in Russia was held up for more than four hours at Moscow
Airport on Thursday. The deputy chairman of the Czech lower house, who is
