Czech Republic
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Fiscal compact
Prague keeps its distance
31 January 2012PresseuropHospodářské noviny -
5 January 2012L'Hebdo Lausanne
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27 December 2011Lidové noviny Prague
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Czech Republic
In Prague, Europe is often far away
20 December 20116Lidové noviny Prague -
Schengen
Liechtenstein takes down its borders
20 December 20111PresseuropVolksblatt -
Czech Republic
Václav Havel – neither an angel nor God
19 December 20111Hospodářské noviny Prague -
Press review
Václav Havel – Europe has lost a father
19 December 2011PresseuropLa Repubblica, De Morgen, Libération & 4 others -
Czech Republic
With or without Europe?
9 December 2011PresseuropHospodářské noviny -
Austria
Credit crunch comes to the East
24 November 2011PresseuropDie Presse -
Czech Republic
The “Looney” is dead
11 November 2011PresseuropLidové noviny -
10 November 201115Respekt Prague
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Eurozone crisis
They forget about growth
28 October 20114Les Echos Paris -
Austria | Czech Republic
Banks battening down the hatches
11 October 2011PresseuropDie Presse -
Czech Republic – Netherlands
Cannabis: Medicine or hard drug?
6 October 20111PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
Czech Republic
In Varnsdorf, Roma are under pressure
5 October 20112Hospodářské noviny Prague -
Czech Republic
Bosses want an end to corruption
19 September 2011PresseuropHospodárske Noviny -
Czech Republic
Nuclear superpower at heart of Europe
8 September 20111PresseuropHospodářské noviny -
Czech Republic
Fatty army to go on a diet
31 August 2011PresseuropLidové noviny -
Central Europe
Ex-GDR, a new land for Poles and Czechs
29 August 2011Lidové noviny Prague -
Debt crisis
Czech Republic's rating increases
25 August 2011PresseuropHospodářské noviny -
Czech Republic-Slovakia
A Soviet take on the Prague Spring
22 August 2011PresseuropMladá Fronta DNES -
Czech Republic
Government quails at Facebook abuse
18 August 2011PresseuropMladá Fronta DNES -
Czech Republic
Time to shoulder the euro
8 August 20117Respekt Prague -
A town in Europe
Slavonice, Moravia’s bohemian outpost
19 July 2011Lidové noviny Prague -
Belgium
We need a velvet divorce
21 June 20118De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
Czech Republic
"Social Armageddon" in Prague
17 June 20112PresseuropLidové noviny -
Czech Republic
Prague paralysed by transport strike
16 June 2011PresseuropHospodářské noviny -
Czech Republic
Prague braces for anti-austerity strike
13 June 2011PresseuropHospodářské noviny -
Nuclear energy
Let Brussels look after it
9 June 20114Respekt Prague -
Czech Republic
Instant repatriation for national artworks
1 June 2011PresseuropLidové noviny -
Czech Republic
Party financing loophole for corruption
2 May 2011PresseuropHospodářské noviny -
Labour market
Work in Germany? Yes, maybe
29 April 20111Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurt -
Czech Republic-Poland
Hectares of contention
26 April 2011PresseuropLidové noviny -
Czech Republic
Mr Clean Hands faces defeat
20 April 2011PresseuropLidové noviny -
Czech Republic
Country on verge of nervous breakdown
14 April 2011PresseuropLidové noviny -
Czech Republic
Corruption at heart “clean” government
7 April 20111PresseuropHospodářské noviny -
Central Europe
The wilted charms of the euro
4 April 2011Presseurop -
31 March 20113Hospodářské noviny Prague
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Europact
What’s in it for Eastern Europe?
28 March 2011Adevărul Bucharest -
Czech Republic
Military commando versus public television
14 March 2011PresseuropLidové noviny -
Czech Republic
Outrage over VAT hike for pension reform
10 March 20111PresseuropMladá Fronta DNES -
Romania
The poor man of Europe
3 March 2011PresseuropRevista 22 -
Czech Republic
Police call for more moonlighting
2 March 2011PresseuropLidové noviny -
Czech Republic
Schoolkids taught to "compete" with China
1 March 20111PresseuropMladá Fronta DNES -
North Africa
Libya's revolution, Europe's shame
23 February 20112El País Madrid -
EU-Libya
High noon with Gaddafi
21 February 2011PresseuropPresseurop -
Czech Republic
Doctor exodus averted
17 February 2011PresseuropHospodářské noviny -
Poland/Germany
Bundestag reopens World War 2 wounds
15 February 2011PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
10 February 20113Lidové noviny Prague
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Czech Republic
Austerity MPs don't like the medicine
10 February 2011PresseuropLidové noviny
They published Václav Havel and all those Czechoslovak writers banned by the communist regime. Forty years ago, Zdena and Josef Škvorecký created in Toronto one of the most important publishing houses of the Eastern European resistance. 
Twenty years after the "return to Europe" championed by former President Václav Havel, who died on December 18, the debate about the Czech Republic's relationship with the EU is dominated by two political camps that are both devoid of real ideas about the union's future. 
The former Czech president did not seek power for power’s sake, but became indispensable during the next twenty-two years of his country’s post-communist development. A tribute from Prague daily Hospodářské noviny after his death on December 18th. 
The European press provides a nearly unanimous homage to Václav Havel the playwright, dissident and first president of post-communist Czechoslovakia. Havel died of cancer on December 18. He was 75. 
As the eurozone crisis deepens, the countries outside of it are trying to come up with ways not to lose control of their destinies inside the EU. 
The agreement reached by the seventeen states of the eurozone is leaving out one crucial issue: growth. Two problems therefore remain unresolved: the lack of a common macroeconomic policy and the divisions between the member countries. 
About half a kilometre from the German border, for several weeks now Varnsdorf has been the scene of far-right demonstrations against the Roma minority – about 500 people in a town of 16,000. The demonstrations bring into sharp focus the tensions between the townspeople and a community whose integration is still a problem. 
More and more Poles are settling in the former East Germany, filling the void left by the flight of East Germans to the West following the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Lidové noviny is calling on Czechs to do the same, and so to help blur the borders of central Europe. 
Despite the pressure on the single currency and the current financial storm, one Czech journalist says it’s time for the Czech Republic to adopt the euro. A surprising proposal, perhaps, but one that she says is based on rational facts. 
In its tumbledown Renaissance splendour, this town on the Czech-Austrian frontier has become a haven for intellectuals and artists who come from Prague in search of authenticity. 
In 1992, Czechoslovakia separated peacefully into two countries. Today neither Czechs nor Slovaks regret the decision. Maybe it's time Belgium did the same thing, says De Volkskrant’s Central and Eastern Europe correspondent. 
Leaving nuclear safety to Member States to deal with is no longer tenable. Joint surveillance would give credibility to proponents of nuclear energy and at the same time limit lobbying from the energy giants. 
On 1 May, the doors will open wide for Poles, Czechs and other eastern Europeans now free to work in Germany. But no one expects a stampede. Quite the opposite: German companies will have to woo the new guest workers ardently and assiduously. 
Europe’s sovereign debt crisis has dampened enthusiasm for the single currency in most of the countries of Central Europe. Today, only the Baltic States are still eager to join the Eurozone, writes "Rzeczpospolita".
Silesians. They have their own language, a long history and they live in one of the richest regions of Poland. Today their calls for autonomy are echoing louder and louder. When they enjoyed unexpected success in regional elections last autumn for the first time in twenty years, Warsaw woke up to a problem in its territories along the Czech border. 
The EU’s 27 member states have adopted a pact for the euro that will provide a collective guarantee for the single currency. However, a former Romanian diplomat argues that Brussels will still have to find the courage and the means to implement it. 
Faced with the massacres perpetrated by the Gaddafi regime against its own people, how can the EU content itself with calling for “restraint”, while spending more time worrying about an influx of refugees? Madrid daily El País publishes an indignant editorial. 
The parallel between the popular unrest in Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco, and the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 is an uneasy one. How can the foundations for democracy in the Arab world be compared with those of Eastern Europe?