Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Thu, 27 Aug 2026 01:46:06 +0200https://english.radio.cz/former-prime-minister-stanislav-gross-dead-45-8262904© 2026 Radio Prague International Stanislav Gross, who became the Czech Republic’s youngest prime minister aged just 34-years-old, has died following a short battle with ALS or Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Mr. Gross served as Prime Minister for a mere nine months from 2004-2005. Once viewed as the “golden boy” of Czech politics, Gross’s tenure was marred by a scandal surrounding how the PM had managed to finance a 4.2 million crown apartment in Prague. Gross was forced to resign and subsequently quit politics altogether, and instead began practicing law. Largely absent from public life thereafter, reports emerged in 2014 that the former PM was seriously ill. I spoke with Jakub Janda of the European Values think-tank for his reflections on the life of Stanislav Gross: encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/gross_12.jpg?timestamp=1590702522 https://english.radio.cz/former-prime-minister-stanislav-gross-dead-45-8262904 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9