Chris Johnstone

After years of seeing their bricks and mortar assets rising in value, Czechs are now coming to terms with falling prices for flats and houses. But while gloom and doom…

Language teaching in the Czech Republic has been big business since the fall of Communism, with many hoping improving their language skills will increase their job…

Václav Bartuška was one of the leaders of the student protests which toppled the Czechoslovak Communist regime in November 1989. Recently he has been the Czech energy…

Every cloud has a silver lining, so they say. But the many clouds that have constituted the Czech summer so far have a sort of golden-yellow hue for me. That is the colour…

In Business News this week: stark predictions of a shrinking economy from the Finance Ministry; snub for local film sets; euro adoption pledge from Social Democrats; pump…

Normally news about massive incentives for energy companies to invest in technology cutting down on polluting greenhouse gases would be applauded as a step in the right…

The Czech caretaker government has approved far reaching plans for how the country could develop over the next decades. The controversial development plan earmarks where…

A Czech heavy metal star has got himself into trouble over the lyrics of the title song of his band’s latest album “Deratizer” or exterminator. The refrain refers to…

Igor Lukeš is professor of international relations and history at Boston University in the US. He left Czechoslovakia in the 1970’s and has become one of the foremost…