Jan Richter

The Czech prime minister, Jan Fischer, is in Israel for a three-day working visit. After meeting the Israeli president, Shimon Peres, in Jerusalem on Wednesday, he’s set…

A week after Ottawa brought back visas for Czech citizens over the large numbers of Czech Romanies seeking asylum in Canada, the Czech government put out a report on the…

In Business news: ČEZ generates nearly one third less hydropower; Czechs are among the EU countries that least abuse European funds; Prague taxi-drivers are not the worst…

When Ivan Klíma was a little boy, he knew he wanted to be a writer. Today, he is one of the most respected figures of Czech literature. Ivan Klíma’s life journey included…

In Business News this week: the prime minister this year’s state budget deficit will total at least 150 billion crowns; The Czech Republic wins arbitration over Union…

Czech scientists are up in arms over the government’s plan to reform the system of science and research. The cabinet is planning to introduce new ways of evaluating the…

The five-day conference on Holocaust era assets, held as the final major event of the Czech EU presidency, came to a close in Prague on Tuesday. Representatives of more…

In June 1989, a group of people around the dissident and future president, Václav Havel, put together a petition to the communist authorities asking them to stop…