Martin Mikule

Prague's weather in recent few weeks has probably disappointed many tourists who have come to enjoy the city in the summer sunshine. Since late June, Prague has been…

If you want to visit a theatre in Prague, summer is not the best time. Even though there are dozens of theatres in the city performing all year round, a lot of them close…

After the rejection of the European constitution by the public in France and the Netherlands the last EU summit criticized the general lack of information on European…

Postdemocracy is a term that was used by President Vaclav Klaus at a Council of Europe meeting in Warsaw in May where he criticised growing power of non-governmental…

Sixty-nine Czech MPs have this week signed a letter asking President Vaclav Klaus to give the pop singer Karel Gott an important state honour - the Order of Merit. Karel…

With the end of June the school year in the Czech Republic comes to an end, and children receive their school reports. Many of them can now boast good marks and look…

The emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and Bohemian King Charles IV, who ruled the country in the14th century, has been making the front pages of Czech newspapers in recent…

A recent opinion poll commissioned by the Foreign Ministry that was carried out in six different countries - including Great Britain and the United States - was tried to…

Every year at the beginning of summer the East-Bohemian town of Litomysl commemorates its famous native, the composer Bedrich Smetana, and in his honour organizes an…

The great Czech composer Bedrich Smetana was born in Litomysl, a picturesque town in the Bohemian-Moravian borderlands. Since 1949 - 125 years after Smetana's birth …