Jan Velinger

At first glance, the jibe of Napolean Bonaparte that the British were a nation of shopkeepers might seem to ring true. British based retailers Marks and Spencer, Tesco…

Heroine or villain? The high profile but sometimes quixotic head of the Czech independent energy regulator Alena Vitásková could be cast either way by the role she has…

Every Winter Olympics has its defining, overarching moments of success and victory, moments which we look back on years later, remembering where we were when they happened…

Ernst & Young expects economy to grow by 2.2 percent in 2013; Czech Post gives up cigarettes; a Czech video game developer gets 36 million in backing through crowd funding…

Czech President Miloš Zeman addressed the European Parliament on Wednesday morning in a speech anticipated to be far more pro-EU than that of his predecessor Václav Klaus…

The Czech national hockey team is now officially looking for a new coach. On Monday, a day after the Winter Olympics ended, Alois Hadamczik announced he was stepping down…

Most dedicated listeners but also more casual fans of classical music have at some point wondered about the sound of early musical instruments once played by the great…

The new prime minister, Bohuslav Sobotka, signalled ahead of his meeting with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on Thursday, that his government would…