Rosie Johnston

The two rebel Civic Democrat MPs, Vlastimil Tlustý and Jan Schwippel, who voted against their party to topple the government in last Tuesday’s no-confidence vote are back…

Perhaps the best known Czech author in the world today, Milan Kundera, turns 80 this Wednesday. The reclusive author of works such as ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’…

For the past two years, Karel Barták has been the chief of the European Commission’s youth and culture communications unit, making him one of the highest-ranking Czechs in…

This Tuesday marks the halfway point of the Czech Republic’s EU presidency. On a recent visit to Brussels, I met one of the people instrumental in organizing the Czechs’…

Four days to go until Barack Obama visits Prague and it seems the US president has rather scaled down his itinerary, with reports that plans to have dinner with the Czech…

Foreign ministers from the European Union’s 27 member states are meeting informally in the south Bohemian town of Hluboká this Friday. As well as discussing the EU’s…

A Tuesday night in Brussels and a crowd of well-dressed concertgoers await a recital of Dvořák and Martinů. The concert, staged in the city’s splendid Theatre du…

On Tuesday, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko began a two-day official visit to the Czech Republic. At a joint briefing with his Czech counterpart, Václav Klaus, at…