Chris Johnstone

In Business News this week: Czechs’ high corruption threshold; a change of heart on airport privatisation; multiplexes roll-out in the regions; Czech Airlines searches for…

Public service broadcaster Czech Television has sparked a major row by broadcasting a pre-election spot for the extremist Národní strana, or National Party. The clip…

The British scandal over MPs imaginative expense payments has focused attention on how Czech lawmakers are compensated and their accounts controlled. The comparison shows…

The global crisis has pushed unemployment towards the top of the agenda in the Czech Republic with nearly 8.0 percent of the labour force now seeking work. That is still…

During the first weeks of May I often slip into Wellington boots, tough plastic gloves and a seemingly out of place heavy raincoat to wander about a slice of the Czech…

In Business News today: how production braked in the auto sector; good and bad news on inflation and jobs; a new turn in a massive clean-up tender; Vietnamese skills come…

Shock figures on the Czech jobs front in April have focused attention on how bad unemployment will become before it gets better. Most analysts are predicting worse to come…

A celebrity cast of top Czech writers and actors has taken a high profile public stand against the practices of the Czech tabloid press. Around a dozen top names have…