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Talking PointTwo Czech views - one Europhile, one Eurosceptic - on where the European Union is heading
The last few days have seen two developments that could have a huge bearing
on the Czech Republic's future. Firstly Czechs voted in a referendum ten
days ago in favour of joining the European Union on the first of May next
year. Secondly, last weekend's European Union Summit in Greece set out a
first rough blueprint for reforms to the union, aimed at making the
Brussels bureaucracy both more accountable and more efficient. In a few
years Czechs could be in a very different EU than the one we've grown to
know. To discuss these developments I'm joined by Jan Kasl, former Prague
mayor and founder of the strongly pro-European political party, the
European Democrats, and by the London-based writer and journalist,
Benjamin Kuras, one of the best-known Eurosceptics in the Czech
Euro-debate.
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Current AffairsJan Amos Komensky - a pioneer of education remembered
Jan Amos Komensky, also known as Comenius was a great Czech thinker,
philosopher and writer, though he is best known as a pioneer of education.
On March 28th, the anniversary of Komensky's birth in 1592, Czech
schoolchildren traditionally honour their teachers - indeed it is
Teachers' Day here in the Czech Republic.
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One on OneBejamin Kuras - broadcaster, writer, commentator, eurosceptic
My guest today is Benjamin Kuras, who himself worked at Radio Prague for a
couple of months in mid-1968. Not long afterwards Mr Kuras - who is now a
well-known author, playwright and conservative political commentator -
left Czechoslovakia for the United Kingdom, where he lives to this day.
When I spoke to Mr Kuras at his quiet north London home, he told me he was
extremely close to graduating from university when he emigrated.
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Current AffairsBenjamin Kuras: a Czech author who lives in England but still makes waves at home
Benjamin Kuras is a Czech author and broadcaster who has lived in England for almost 25 years. Mr Kuras has written over a dozen plays and several books, such as As Golems Go and Is There Life on Marx?. In recent years he has penned polemical articles for several newspapers and magazines here in the Czech Republic. On Tuesday I caught up with Benjamin Kuras after a public discussion in Prague - at which he was quizzed on a wide variety of political questions - and asked him if his articles tackled political issues.
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Czechs in HistoryJan Amos Komensky
Jan Amos Komensky - also known as Comenius was a thinker, philosopher, writer and educator. Here in the Czech Republic all school children know him - mostly under the name 'the teacher of nations'. I spoke with the director of the Komensky Museum in Prague, Ludovit Emanuel, who told me more about the rich but rather unfortunate life of this great Czech personality of the Baroque period. More
