David Vaughan

The decline of the Euro and spiralling oil prices. Not surprisingly these were top of the agenda when finance ministers and national bank governors from the G7 group of…

What could possibly bring forty-two people of all ages, shapes and sizes from different corners of the world to the little Czech town of Dobruska in the foothills of the…

At the Czech Foreign Ministry on Monday journalists were introduced to a brand new Central European institution - the International Visegrad Fund. Named after the town…

It was amid an atmosphere of tension here in Prague, sometimes bordering on hysteria, that the International Monetary Fund's recently appointed President, Horst Koehler…

As the International Monetary Fund/World Bank meeting in Prague in September draws ever closer, the executive director of the IMF, Horst Koehler, is visiting Prague to…

What skeletons do the former Eastern Bloc countries have in their cupboards? That's a question to which the European Union wants to know the answers. The Union's…

This Thursday an arts festival begins in the Moravian town of Boskovice. It will include jazz and rock concerts, including many household names here in the Czech Republic…

In the course of the Second World War well over half a million Czechoslovak citizens were sent to German and Austrian cities as forced labour. They often worked and lived…

Czech literature at the end of the millennium. All this week that's a subject that's preoccupying 150 experts on Czech literature from as far afield as Canada, Egypt and…

Thanks to Steven Spielberg the name of Oskar Schindler is known the world over, but this programme is about an almost forgotten contemporary of Schindler, who deserves a…