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- Jewish group suggests ban on far-right Greek party
A major European Jewish organization is urging European governments to quickly adopt measures to tackle anti-Semitism and far-right extremism, including possibly banning a hardline Greek party that did unusually well in recent elections.
- Bush touts Arab spring, says US can't fear freedom
Former President George W. Bush is praising the Arab spring movement and says the U.S. shouldn't fear the spread of freedom, even if it doesn't know what policies newly liberated countries will pursue.
- Recession hits EU states in the east, outlook grim
PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech Republic's economy shrank for the third consecutive quarter and Romania fell back into recession in the first three months of the year, as the euro crisis and government austerity hammered domestic demand and squeezed the crucial export sector. Flash gross domestic product estimates for the European Union's emerging eastern states also showed Hungary had contracted for the first time since the height of the global economic crisis in 2009. ...
- Czech economy remains in recession
The Czech Statistics Office says the country remained stuck in recession as its economy suffered a sharper downturn than expected and shrank by 1.0 percent.
- Czech restitution plan may unlock vast church lands
CERVENA RECICE, Czech Republic (Reuters) - Wires hang out of the walls, windows are smashed and the grass grows tall in the gardens of the once-elegant archbishop's residence in Cervena Recice, a 16th-century chateau left to rot after the communists took over in 1948. Bent on building a society free of religion, the communists seized the chateau, of the diocese of Prague, and thousands of other church properties and threw clergymen into labor camps and prisons or forced them into exile. ...
- Art Nouveau gem unveiled in Prague after 84 years
"The Slav Epic" by Alfons Mucha, a Czech Art Nouveau gem, went on display in Prague on Thursday, fulfilling the wish of the artist who spent 18 years on the series of paintings from 1910 to 1928.
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