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The Czech prime minister seemed a good choice for many, but has lost a great deal of support. When Petr Necas became the Czech prime minister in June 2010, many rejoiced...

In-fighting in Prague. If you think that a bug in the bedroom means something that causes yelps in the night, you may need to revise your assumptions – at least when in...

Leader of the European Conservatives and Reforminsts says the group can now focus on its anti-federalist priorities. The new leader of the European Conservatives and...

UK's Kirkhope loses out to central European for second time. Jan Zahradil, a Czech MEP from the Civic Democrats (ODS), has been elected as leader of the European...

Czech defence minister feels the heat. Could the Czech presidency of the Council of Ministers in 2009 be about to cost Alexandr Vondra his job as defence minister? 

The race for space and energy jobs. Will the Czech Republic at last get to jump aboard the EU's agency gravy-train? The Czechs have been lobbying for Prague to be chosen to...

Paolo Nicoletti has been appointed managing director of APCO Worldwide's European headquarters in Brussels, replacing Garry Walsh, who was named managing director of APCO's...

Three-party, centre-right coalition agreed after a month of talks. Czech centre-right parties agreed early this morning to form a coalition government led by Petr Nečas of...

Czech politics used to be depressingly sleazy. Thanks to recent political upheaval, there's now hope. A seamy political cartel in which big business financed big parties:...

Formation of a government remains at least three weeks away. The clear outlines of a three-party, centre-right coalition emerged from the Czech general election on 28-29...

Socialists win but its leader resigns; two new parties may enter government. A coalition government led by the centre-right looks likely to emerge from parliamentary...

When Czechs go to the polls next week, the result may be an unlikely coalition of the left. When Jan Fischer winds up the Czech Republic's caretaker government after...

Former Czech premier is on his way out, or not. Mirek Topolánek, sometime Czech premier, may be bowing out of politics altogether, after leaving before the halfway mark of...

Revenge and possible sackings in Prague. Revenge, they say, is a dish best served cold. According to

How the Czechs and Hungarians chose their nominees. The Czech government's approach to choosing a European commissioner, on the face of it, was commendably thorough and...

Czechs nominate their Europe minister for Commission post. The Czech government has nominated its serving minister for European affairs, Štefan Füle, to be the...

Can Klaus's opposition to Lisbon be overcome? By the time that leaders of the EU's national governments gather in Brussels on 29 October, it is just possible that the last...

Summit set to focus on saving Lisbon treaty, but there will be no time for consultations over new EU post. Discussions on who should get the EU's new top jobs have been...

The Czech president has found the one political way in which he could domestically justify his continued refusal to sign the Lisbon treaty. When a Czech politician finds...

Commission president says there is no reason for the Czech Republic not to complete Lisbon treaty ratification. European Commission President José Manuel Barroso has...