Jan Velinger

The 62nd annual Cannes film festival has come to a close and things couldn’t have gone better for Czech filmmakers. First, young filmmaker Zuzana Špidlová’s 21-minute…

Hello and welcome to another edition of SoundCzech, in which you can learn Czech expressions through song lyrics. Today, we feature a song by one of the most popular Czech…

On Tuesday, the Czech Charter 77 Foundation awarded two young Czechs, Jakub Štěrbík and Stanislav Vodička, this year’s František Kriegel Award for outstanding personal…

The country’s new prime minister, Jan Fischer, has revealed that his government is now close to releasing its official policy statement, with the government due to hammer…

Some 23,000 union members from several countries descended on Prague on Saturday to protest against steps taken by the former Czech government to tackle the economic…

A survey just released by the OECD has ranked the Czech Republic among the very worst when it comes to the number of its youth who smoke. According to the survey, some 23…

This Wednesday the Lisbon treaty, aimed at reforming the workings of the 27-member European Union, faces a key vote in the Czech Senate, one which has many in Brussels…