Czech Republic News

A bastion in the Czech Republic has been named after National Hero Dr. Jose P. Rizal and Ferdinand Blumentritt, the Department of Foreign Affairs reported Friday.

VATICAN CITY, JULY 3, 2009 .- Benedict's schedule for his September visit to the homeland of the Infant of Prague was released today.

Some 100 Africans were expelled aboard a special aircraft flying from Prague in the small hours Wednesday for staying illegally in Europe or violating law, the Nova commercial television channel reported.

The 44th International Film Festival opened Friday in the Czech Republic with a week of events planned, including an award for French actress Isabelle Huppert and a world premiere by Milos Forman.

Both David Vodrazka and Pavel Bem, whom the Civic Democratic Party branch in Prague on Wednesday chose for candidates number one and two in the October early polls, vowed a "battle" against Karel Schwarzenberg, who is expected to lead the rival party TOP 09 in Prague.

Carscoop readers Vladimir Pekulas and Jan Mlejnek bagged these shots of Kia's forthcoming mini-MPV on the highway near Mlada Boleslav in the Czech Republic.

A ceremony of the Czech Republic, represented by PM Jan Fischer, symbolically passing the rotating EU presidency to Sweden, represented by ambassador Catherine von Heidenstam, was hosted by the Swedish embassy in Prague today.

The European Union has denounced the arrest of Honduran President Manuel Zelya Sunday and the Czech EU presidency said the EU demands that he be immediately released, the French news agency AFP has reported.

Spokesmen for the Diocese of Brno have revealed additional details about Pope Benedicta s September 26-28 visit to the Czech Republic.

Canada probably reinstating visas for Czech citizens Prague/Ottawa, 1.7.2009, 08:08, It is highly likely that Canada will reinstate visas for Czech citizens.

Hornbach Baumarkt CS, running a network of six gardening and hobby tools shops in the Czech Republic, raised net profit to Kc484m in the 2008/2009 business year from Kc402.6m a year ago, CTK learnt from the firm's financial statement Tuesday.

India and the 27-nation European Union are set to expand their strategic partnership by focusing on areas ranging from global financial crisis, UN reforms and trade to energy, climate change and terrorism at their next summit in New Delhi Nov 6. Swedish Ambassador to India Lars-Olof Lindgren struck an upbeat note for India-EU partnership in the ...

A Jewish cemetery has been desecrated in the eastern part of the Czech Republic, members of the community there said Tuesday.

Czech policemen detain rioters as about 500 ultra-wing protesters clashed with police after they tried to reach a Roma settlement during their demonstration against "positive discrimination" in the ... Immigration Minister Jason Kenney says a newly released report supports his contention that the Roma minority in the Czech Republic, which has ...

The laying of a wreath at the statue of Slovak World War One general Milan Rastislav Stefanik in Prague was deleted from the programme of Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic's visit to Prague due to a 90-minute delay caused at the Bratislava airport over a phone threat call today, Czech government spokesman Roman Prorok told journalists.

At least 12 people have been killed in floods in southern Czech Republic, European media reported on Friday.

Sixty-four years after their plight ended, Holocaust survivors still await justice, even though there is little political will in many European countries to undo the Nazi-era wrongs.

Main U.S. negotiator on the compensation of wartime slave and forced labor victims Stuart Eizenstat addresses media during a press conferene during the Holocaust Era Assets Conference in Prague, Czech Republic, Monday, June 29, 2009.

It was hardly "by accident" that Czech Social Democrat head Jiri Paroubek on Thursday decided to attend the congress of the Just Russia party in the Kremlin and that the party leadership unexpectedly organised his meeting with Vladimir Putin, daily Hospodarske noviny writes today.

The Czech Republic symbolically passed "the baton" of cultural events accompanying the EU presidency to Sweden Sunday at the Europa musicalis concert held within the Smetana's Litomysl opera festival in the local castle's courtyard.