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Zeman, Schuessel emerge from bull ring with Temelin compromise

The prime ministers of the Czech Republic and neighbouring Austria met late into the night on Tuesday for talks on the controversial Temelin nuclear power plant in South…

Is Czech Republic doing enough to counter BSE menace?

One of the issues affecting the whole of Europe is of course BSE, or mad cow disease, and its human form, new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakobs Disease, otherwise known as vCJD…

Hackers bring down Czech Radio website

Computer hackers have scored a number of very public successes in the past few weeks: earlier this week they broke into the Interior Ministry website, having a bit of fun…

Zeman arrives in Nice for crucial EU summit

Czech Prime Minister Milos Zeman arrived in Nice this morning for the start of a crucial European Union summit. Leaders of the Union's 15 member states have gathered in…

Government declares war on neo-Nazis, but rights groups say answer is tolerance

The Czech Interior Ministry is rumoured to be on the verge of banning the far-right Patriotic Republican Party, part of an ongoing campaign to crack down on the Czech…

Who won battle over Czech National Bank?

President Vaclav Havel was diagnosed last week with bronchitis, and was supposed to be resting at home. Instead he spent several hours on Monday deep in discussion with…

Gross pulls out of party leader race: what future for CSSD under Spidla?

Members of the ruling Social Democrats gathered in Prague this weekend for some rather difficult talks on the party's future. Party leader Milos Zeman announced some time…

Klement Gottwald loses keys to town of Kladno

The town of Kladno lies about 20 kilometres west of Prague. Its claim to fame is the huge Poldi steelworks, which employed thousands of people during the communist regime…