January 9, 2023·Cocktails·Lenka Skrzeczkova Jan Werich. (Photo: Profimedia) When in September 1938 Nazi Germany occupied the Czechoslovak border. Jiří Voskovec and Jan Werich had spoken out against the Third Reich for some time. They rely on it, for example, in
More than 70 families of compatriots from Ukraine again turned to President Miloš Zeman for help with resettlement to the Czech Republic. So said Věra Doušová who submitted a list of names of about 250 people to the presidential office
There is democracy exhaustion in Europe. The former Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg stated this at the Forum 2000 conference. The head of TOP 09 hopes that Russian President Vladimir Putin will wake him up and Europeans will remember what
China and 21 other Asian countries signed a deal in Beijing today to set up a new international bank to help fund infrastructure projects in Asia. Washington sees new financial institutions as unnecessary competition for established organizations such as the
Prime Minister Petr Nečas (ODS) will attend the funeral of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on Wednesday, April 17 in London. Government spokesman Jan Hrubeš said this today. Former president Václav Klaus, a big admirer of “Iron Lady”, will
China may replace the United States as the world’s largest economy this year. At least that’s what the Financial Times (FT) says, referring to the purchasing power parity data. The US has been the world’s largest economy since 1872, when
The current crisis in relations between Russia and Europe could negatively affect global tourism. This is mainly the decline in Russian tourists, as shown by the German travel and tourism group TUI AG, the majority owner of the largest European
Yahoo is currently winning in the close combat of the most popular internet search engine in the US. In July, it was able to attract more visitors than rival Google. It reached first place among American search engines for the
Hungarian police arrested Lászl Csatáry this morning. The 97-year-old man, who was sentenced to death in absentia in Czechoslovakia in 1948, is now number one on the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s list of Nazi criminals. During the Second World War, Csatáry
President Václav Klaus and his successor Miloš Zeman honor the memory of Tomáš Garrigu Masaryk today in Lány. They laid a wreath on the grave of Czechoslovakia’s founder. At the solemn event on the occasion of the 163rd anniversary of