Czech Republic

Pandora Papers revelations aren’t likely to doom the billionaire Czech prime minister in this week’s elections.

The Czech Republic’s kerfuffle over diplomats demonstrates the need to think bigger—and smaller—when it comes to responding to cyberattacks.

In Eastern European countries that have accepted the Russian vaccine, destabilization has followed.

From the Czech Republic and Germany to the Indian state of Kerala, governments that dealt decisively with the first wave of the coronavirus are drowning in the second wave.

Slovakia joins other Eastern European countries signing declarations with Washington aimed at keeping China out of critical infrastructure.

Competition among China, Russia, and the West is taking the form of a battle to build reactors in Eastern Europe.

A local Czech politician tells China’s foreign minister not to “open your trap” again about his country’s relations with Taiwan.

Beijing is trying to use the pandemic to regain lost influence. It won’t be that easy.

Without an intelligent quarantine in place, public trust and the media have been crucial to the country’s success.

Three Prague officials are under police protection following reports of a poison plot.

Slovakia’s progressive president was supposed to spur a regional revival of liberalism—now her party has even failed to qualify for parliament. What went wrong?

A party of right-wing extremists is trying to ride a wave of youth support to reshape Slovakia’s government.

A historic murder trial ahead of parliamentary elections could boost liberal democratic forces over the populist ruling party.

The Russian president’s amateur history lessons are outraging neighboring countries. While he is right to criticize a recent EU Parliament resolution, his historical revisionism doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.

City-level opposition could be the key to defeating populism in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and beyond.

PiS won by offering provincial voters social benefits that transformed their lives. If Poland’s opposition wants to defeat the illiberal ruling party, it will have to offer an alternative welfare state model.

Populists still want to be part of the European Union, even in Hungary and Poland. Just a far less inclusive one.