The Czech Republic was praised for its swift initial response to the coronavirus crisis, but seven months on it’s now recording 15,000 new cases a day and has the second highest per capita death rate over seven days in the world. So what went wrong?Continue Reading
Plans to rehabilitate a pre-war Jewish cemetery in the Czech town of Prostějov have run into fierce local opposition. The foundation behind the plan says it has been torpedoed by deliberate misinformation and anti-Semitism.Continue Reading
The assassination of Nazi police chief Reinhard Heydrich by Czechoslovak resistance fighters in 1942 was one of the outstanding feats of daring in World War Two.Continue Reading
Scotland goes to the polls on Thursday to decide whether it wants to remain part of the UK or become an independent country. The BBC’s Rob Cameron has been speaking to the former Czech president Vaclav Klaus, who as prime minister led the negotiations with Slovakia on dividing the country.Continue Reading
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