Rob Cameron

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…

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…

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…

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…

Leaders of the ruling Social Democrats met at the party's Prague headquarters this weekend after what was probably their worst month in power. The Social Democrats, who…

The dictionary defines the word 'ambassador' as 'an official envoy of the highest rank accredited to a foreign government or sovereign'. The word is of Germanic origin: …

Czechs are mourning the death of their most celebrated athlete. On Wednesday morning, an official at Prague's Central Military Hospital announced that Emil Zatopek, the…

Analysts are slowly sifting through the results of Sunday's Senate elections, and they certainly make interesting reading. There were 27 seats up for grabs. The coalition…

Last night the leader of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia, Miroslav Grebenicek, had dinner with the head of the ruling Social Democrats, Milos Zeman. The dinner…

Czechs went to the polls on Sunday, electing a third of the 81 seats in the upper house, the Senate, as well as members of 14 new regional parliaments. We'll have more on…