For politicians in the Czech Republic, the European elections have turned the country into something of a sticky battleground. For two weeks the country's leaders were faced with increasing numbers of attacks by egg throwers. At first they tried to make a joke of it, but after the assaults became more violent, the politicians were relieved today to see the young activists put down their egg cartons. Read more...

Everyone moans about mounting electricity bills. But with Czech consumers, complaints come in the funniest forms. Read more...

Cannonball, Gumball, Redline, Carbon Black - they sound like the names of videos games, but in fact, these are races; organised in secrecy, barely legal, and highly dangerous for the public. First set up in Asia, the high speed chases are now tearing through the streets of Central Europe. Read more...

The Czech press is dismayed bu Milan Kundera after a document, dug out of Czechoslovakian police (SNB) archives, reveals that the esteemed writer was an informant in the 1950s. Read more...

Portugal and Czech Republic, Group A's two leading teams, face off for the first position in the group. Read more...

A group of artists in the Czech Republic are facing up to three years in prison for playing a practical joke. Last July, the ‘Ztohoven' art group hijacked a Czech television broadcast and introduced the image of an atomic cloud into a weather report. Early risers who were tuned in to the morning programme were stunned to see the cloud rising in the midst of a peaceful country landscape. Read more...