This Wednesday is reporter Rosie Johnston’s last day here at Radio Prague. Why? Because Rosie is heading to the United States, to undertake a new national project, interviewing Czechs and Slovaks who emigrated to America under communism
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Radio Prague woman to coordinate project collecting Czech- and Slovak- Americans’ stories
Karel Prager is regarded as one of the most important, and most controversial, Czech architects of the second half of the 20th century. Perhaps his best known work is the former Federal Assembly in the centre of Prague, a building many of the city’s residents would consider something of an eye-sore. It was the venue for an unconventional artistic performance on Tuesday night – dedicated to Prager himself.
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Hip hop artist pays tribute to controversial communist-era architect with multi-media show at Federal Assembly building
The Czech Ministry of Industry has just made public its plans for the country’s energy policy over the next four decades.
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Czech industry ministry sparks uproar with long term power plans
The Czech poet, playwright and translator Ludvík Kundera was awarded this year’s Jaroslav Seifert prize on Monday recognising his life’s work and contribution to literature.
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Ludvík Kundera awarded Seifert prize
The 19th century Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin is especially important to two particular countries: his father’s homeland of France, where he lived and died, and Poland, where he was born and raised. It is the Czech Republic though that is first to display an item of great importance to Chopin devotees and Poles in general: as a prelude to 2010 as the Year of Chopin, his funeral mask has come to Prague, where it will be on display for the first time outside of Poland. Christian Falvey has the story:
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Chopin’s death mask on show in Prague after leaving Poland for the first time
The Czech president, Václav Klaus, may have surprised everyone with his new condition for signing the Lisbon treaty, but here in the Czech Republic the argument that the treaty may undermine the country’s post-war Beneš decrees is not altogether new.
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Klaus knows Sudeten German property issue “emotional”, says pundit Pehe
The Czech prime minister was in Brussels on Tuesday for talks on his country’s stalled ratification of the EU’s Lisbon treaty. The European Commission president warned him against “artificial obstacles”, though it remains hard to see a way around the latest obstacle thrown up by the Czech president. Meanwhile, the Constitutional Court has announced a public hearing on Lisbon in two weeks’ time.
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Barroso warns Fischer against “artificial obstacles” to Lisbon ratification, though satisfying latest Klaus demand could be tall order
How are countries of central and Eastern Europe coping with their communist legacies?
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Twenty years after: central and eastern Europe coping with communist legacy
