Jan Velinger

Welcome to another edition of SoundCzech – Radio Prague’s Czech language course in which you can learn new phrases or expressions through song lyrics. Today’s song is…

A vote in the lower house on Wednesday has ensured that the Czech Republic will continue its foreign military missions for at least another year. Following hours of debate…

The global economic crisis is having a negative impact on recycling in countries including the Czech Republic, largely dependent on selling its recyclable materials abroad…

Two weeks into the new Obama administration some have expressed doubts over the future of US missile defence in central Europe. Last year the Czech Republic signed two…

The day after this New Year’s Eve many Czechs awoke to pristine weather: a blue winter’s sky sometime rare in early January, a perfect start to 2009. My wife and I had…

Moscow has offered Washington an unexpected olive branch on US missile defence, on Wednesday backing out of plans to deploy short-range missiles in Kaliningrad. The threat…

Smaller parties in the Czech Republic are already gearing up for this year’s elections to the European Parliament, anxious to reach voters even though the elections only…

On Monday the government backed wide-ranging reforms in the education sector, which could radically change how universities in the country are run. Among the most marked…