Brian Kenety

Cabinet approves Finance Minister's tax cut proposals; State budget would lose 10-15 bn crowns in annual budget due to tax cuts, offset by excise and VAT rate hikes…

Dozens of alumni of the Czechoslovak state schools set up in the United Kingdom by the wartime government in exile arrived in Prague this week—along with file boxes…

A recent study by the United Nations suggests that the Czech population could shrink by an astonishing fifteen percent over the next half century. This could translate to…

Czechoslovak participation in the first weeks of "Operation Overlord"—the invasion of Normandy that began on June 6, 1944—was almost exclusively limited to the air, as…

The Cabinet has drafted a new conflict-of-interest law. It will not require the spouses of politicians and other public officials to disclose assets that are listed in…

The exact nature of a Czech-run camp where hundreds of Roma—mainly children—died from disease, hunger or abuse during the German occupation has long been a polarising…

Singled out for extermination by the Nazis along racial lines, only five out of every hundred Czech Roma are thought to have survived the Second World War. The majority…

Deputies pass bill allowing 72m crown bond issue to cover budget deficit, reject proposals to eliminate investment incentives, restrict shop hours; London-based think tank…

The prospect of going to war with Germany came as no surprise to the Czechoslovak government of the 1930s. Prague had, in fact, been preparing for war seriously for years…