Rosie Johnston

Tens of bands and dozens of djs performed around Prague on Thursday evening to open this year’s United Islands Festival. The event, which is in its fifth year, is…

EU leaders are currently meeting in Brussels for the last summit of the Czech Republic’s EU presidency. Items on the agenda include the Irish government’s efforts to have…

One and a half years after the Czech Republic’s entry into the border-free Schengen zone and its citizens are still falling victim to discriminatory police checks on the…

With a deadline for Letter from Prague’s completion fast approaching, I find myself up at the crack of dawn and in front of a computer. At university, this became…

The Romany language is dying out in the Czech Republic, but not as rapidly as some had feared, suggests a survey conducted by linguists at Prague’s Charles University. The…

It’s roast duck and dumplings on the menu at the United Nations’ dining room in New York this week as part of an ongoing showcase of the Czech Republic’s EU presidency. A…

The Oxford-Weidenfeld prize is one of the UK’s most prestigious translation awards. This year, six books are being judged by a panel of Oxford academics and translators –…