Jan Velinger

It was one of the more anticipated events this year - an economics presentation at Prague's Zofin Palace which attracted hundreds on Thursday. Its key speaker was former…

Without question the main story in all of today's dailies is the ruling coalition's success in overturning a presidential veto on a tax bill amendment raising the country…

In today's edition Jan Velinger's guest is Czech-born architect Petr Franta. Based in Prague, Petr Franta is known around the world for his projects, which include the…

Much of Europe enjoys border free travel. Thanks to what's known as the Schengen agreement, there are no passport or customs checks for travellers between most different…

Agharta. An unusual mystical word for a lost mythical kingdom in Tibet, a source of hidden spiritual energy and power. A seminal Miles Davis record. And, a well-known and…

It has been a little over a year now that Prague was hit by the worst flooding in five hundred years - waters that damaged much of the city's infrastructure and destroyed…

Every once in a while, and it is not often, one comes across a text that both ideally captures its author but also comes to define a period. A text that speaks with such…

There is little doubt which story gets the most press in all of today's Czech papers and that is Monday's teachers' strike, the largest teachers' strike in the country's…