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Current AffairsCzech military doctors sent as reinforcements to Slovak hospitals
Since Saturday, a group of Czech military doctors have been helping out in
hospitals in neighbouring Slovakia where hundreds of doctors walked out
over low wages. Last Wednesday the resignations of 1,200 doctors (of an
overall 7,000) came into force, leaving four of the country’s hospitals
in critical condition and another sixteen in jeopardy. Even though the
Slovak government has now agreed to meet doctors’ demands, the Czech team
is staying on until conditions return to normal. More
Czech HistoryThe Czech invasion of ‘Wilson City’
Welcome to Wilsonstadt, an independent Central European city of 400,000
Germans and Hungarians, and a few Slovaks thrown in for good measure. Named
after US President Woodrow Wilson in 1919, after successfully avoiding
annexation by Czechoslovakia - and an impossible number of other would-be
conquests - it's a prosperous, provincial town on the Danube, though
plagued by poor relations with its neighbors. More
Current AffairsCzech state may have to pay billions of crowns to Slovak pensioners
As the coalition government moves to push a badly needed overhaul of the
pension system through the lower house, fresh clouds have appeared on the
horizon. It has emerged that the Czech Republic may have to pay Slovak
pensioners who worked in Czech firms during the 73 years of a common state
financial contributions to the tune of billions of crowns. More
From the ArchivesCzechoslovakia’s Second Republic: a vain attempt to put the pieces together
The six months leading up to the German occupation of Bohemia and Moravia
in March 1939 were a strange period. After Germany, Poland and Hungary had
annexed over a quarter of the country’s territory as a result of the
Munich Agreement in September 1938, it was hard to see how the rump
Czechoslovakia – the so-called “Second Republic” - could keep going.
But Radio Prague’s shortwave broadcasts continued, and not surprisingly
they focused on sustaining the much shaken international confidence in the
country. Here is the famous Czech professor and scholar of English
literature, Otakar Vočadlo, talking in November 1938. More
Current AffairsVisegrád central European cooperation marks 20th birthday
Twenty years ago today, a new Central European regional grouping emerged
from a meeting of three prime ministers at an historic site overlooking the
Danube in Hungary. The immediate goal was to step up cooperation as they
moved to hitch their newly freed countries as soon as possible to the
European Union and the West. But the Visegrád three, later four, has
proved its staying power even after those goals were achieved. More
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