Jan Velinger

Ten years ago this Thursday, the Czech Republic became one of three post-communist countries that joined NATO. To commemorate the anniversary, and to debate the future of…

After years of wrangling on the issue, EU finance ministers on Tuesday agreed on a deal partly unifying VAT rates, allowing individual countries to reduce value-added…

The Czech Republic saw its unemployment rate jump to 7.4 percent in February, a continued rise which surpassed grim forecasts from a month ago by 0.6 percent. Some 429,000…

This weekend saw the staging of the 16th annual Czech Lions – the country’s main film awards – at Prague’s Lucerna ballroom. On Saturday evening movie stars and movie…

The sci-fi action thriller Wanted, starring Angelina Jolie, and shot largely in the Czech Republic, received a nomination for Best Sound Mixing at this year’s Academy…

Many in the Czech medical profession were unpleasantly surprised by recent comments by the head of the Czech doctors’ association Milan Kubek. Speaking before a…

An article appearing on Tuesday in the New York Times has caused something of a stir in the Czech Republic. Citing US government officials, the paper reported that US…

Hello and welcome to another edition of SoundCzech, Radio Prague’s Czech language programme in which you can learn popular Czech expressions through song lyrics. Today’s…

Two of the Czech Republic’s most famous footballers, Pavel Nedvěd of Juventus Turin and Chelsea’s Petr Čech faced off for the first time on Wednesday in the Champions…

In today’s Spotlight we look at the history of Výstaviště - Prague’s Exhibition Grounds founded in the late 19th century but used to this day for fairs, exhibitions…