Jan Velinger

Czech Radio correspondent Vit Pohanka has been in Washington this week covering Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla's visit to the US. On Thursday he contributed to Radio…

Earlier this week Czech Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla and a delegation including the foreign minister and the minister of industry and trade, began a week-long official…

A remarkable day for Czech diplomacy - that's probably the most accurate way of summing up this past Tuesday - and each of the Czech papers take due notice, offering…

For this week's One on One Jan Velinger talked to Giuseppe Maiello, a professor at Charles University's Department for Slavic and Eastern European studies. From Naples…

The 38th Karlovy Vary International film festival concluded with a grand flourish over the weekend, an awards ceremony that saw the handing out of the grand prize, the…

Recently new EU regulations came into effect requiring average or less than average Czech pubs to clean up their act - in terms of hygiene that is. No longer allowed are…

There are a number of different curious stories covered by today's press, one of the most interesting the re-emergence of a legal battle involving the Church vs. the State…

As part of its proposed public finance reforms the government has decided to lower state subsidies in the area of housing. Until now all Czechs could invest safely in the…