Jan Velinger

Business round-up this week: Government agrees on early retirement package for miners; Health minister declares new victory in Diag Human arbitration battle; Finance…

The lower house of Parliament has agreed to raise taxes on gambling from the current 20 percent to 28 percent. According to news website iDnes, among the most affected…

The tropical island of Zanzibar is the setting of a beautiful new children’s book just released by Labyrint/Raketa. Called Zanzibar jak vyšitý, the book of poems and…

The coalition of ANO, the Social Democrats and the Three Coalition governing Prague has definitively collapsed, the Social Democrats confirmed on Tuesday, saying they had…

The Czech Republic will accept no new migrants this year under EU plans, Interior Minister Milan Chovanec said on Monday in Brussels. Mr Chovanec criticised the EU’s hot…

You’ve probably never heard of Aldabra, an atoll in the Indian Ocean some 1,000 kilometres away from the Seychelles’ Mahé. Reportedly, the last filmmaker to shoot there…

In September, the Bělá-Jezová detention centre for illegal migrants was compared to a prison by the country’s Ombudswoman. On Thursday, the interior minister toured the…

The government is to launch a new fast-track programme to make it easier for high school and university graduates from Ukraine to seek employment in the Czech Republic…

The government on Monday agreed to send an additional 105 million crowns in aid largely to the Middle East and Africa this year and an additional 70 million in the next to…