Pavla Horáková

The new centre-left coalition government headed by Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla narrowly won a vote of confidence on Wednesday in its first major test. All 101 deputies…

Coming up this week, as the government gets the go ahead to embark on a series of ambitious social spending programmes, we ask whether the rising budget deficit is cause…

The new centre-left government finally won a vote of confidence in parliament on Wednesday night for its plans to boost the welfare state and secure the Czech Republic's…

In recent editions we burdened you with a huge amount of new vocabulary, so today we can take a break and look at something more entertaining than new words. It's the bad…

Those of you who are learning the Czech language might be interested to hear this week's edition of Talking Point. Summer schools of Czech are taking place in a number of…

On Monday, the government approved a proposal banning virtually all tobacco advertising and sponsorship of events by tobacco firms in the Czech Republic. Earlier this year…

An international cycling relay called Bike+10 which is meant to promote cycling as an alternative to car traffic started in the Moravian city of Brno ten days ago. The…