Rosie Johnston

Hello and welcome to another edition of SoundCzech, and a new set of Czech idioms imparted through song. Today’s phrases are none too polite, but could come in handy if…

This Wednesday, Sweden takes over the EU presidency from the Czech Republic, and, as its slogan says, ‘takes on the challenge’. Like the Czechs, the Swedes want to use…

This Tuesday is the final day of the Czech Republic’s EU presidency before the country hands over to Sweden on July 1. The six-month presidency has seen the Czechs tackle…

The clean-up operations have begun in northern Moravia following the region’s worst flooding in over a decade, in which 11 lives were lost. Hundreds of families were…

Flash floods swept across the north of the Czech Republic on Wednesday night, claiming at least 10 lives, washing away homes and severely disrupting transport. On Thursday…

The Lusatian Sorbs are a small Slavic minority who can mostly be found in the East of Germany. But they have their history, and their friends, in the Czech Republic too…

On Monday, the Civic Democrats announced that they had formed a new ‘anti-federalist’ European Parliament bloc with the British Conservatives and Poland’s Law and Justice…

Hello and welcome to this week’s SoundCzech, which has something of a motoring theme to it. Today, we’re listening to vintage Czech rockers Olympic and, more specifically…