In a nine-hour session yesterday, the two chambers of the Czech parliament failed to elect a new president of the republic. RFE/RL looks at the vote and the prospects for finding a successor to Vaclav ...

Prague, Nov 29 (CTK) – Czech economist, former MP and former minister Tomas Jezek, known as one of the authors of the Czechoslovak “voucher privatisation” from the 1990s, has died aged 77, ex-PM Petr ...

The Czech parliament has failed to choose a successor to President Vaclav Havel after no candidate managed to secure enough votes in any of the three rounds of voting. The race was whittled down to ...

The president of the Czech Senate, Petr Pithart, has failed to secure the release of two Czech politicians who are being held in Cuba on subversion charges. Mr Pithart is now returning home from Cuba, ...