Jan Velinger

Next Monday and Tuesday Radio Prague - in cooperation with Radio Netherlands - will broadcast two half-hour documentaries on the life of 17th century Czech thinker Jan…

Two years ago Vladimir Spidla's Social Democrats won parliamentary elections with just over 30 percent of the vote, keeping the party in power, and making them easily the…

The survival of the Czech governing coalition hangs in the balance. Its future existence depends upon the fate of one man -Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla who appears to be…

A month ago we reported on the Czech Republic having the second lowest fertility rate in the world. Now the Statistics Office has registered a positive blip in the figures…

In the weeks following the Czech government's poor showing in recent European Parliament elections there has been increasing pressure on Czech Prime Minister Vladimir…

When we reported in May on Cesko hleda superstar - the Czech version of the hit show Pop Idol - it was clear, even then, that one of the front-runners to take the prize…

So far the Euro 2004 football tournament couldn't be going better for the Czechs. On Saturday the Czech national squad faced the Netherlands, dangerous but traditional…

The Social Democrats, the senior members of the Czech Republic's coalition government, have found themselves in an increasingly difficult position following dismal results…