U.S. President Barack Obama’s Democratic Party suffered a major defeat at the polls Nov. 2, losing control of the lower house of Congress and shedding seats to Republicans in the Senate. Republicans picked up at least 60 seats in the House of Representatives, with several races still too close to call. Ohio Republican John Boehner [...]
Equal parts humor and serious message, the “Rally to Restore Sanity And/Or Fear” took place on Washington, D.C.’s famed National Mall Oct. 30. Jon Stewart, host of the satirical Daily Show, and Stephen Colbert, host of the sister show The Colbert Report, took to the stage to lead what have most termed a counter-demonstration against the [...]
Check out analysis of the behind the scenes maneuverings to gain control of Prague City Hall including comments from political analysts Jiři Pehe and Bohumil Doležal in today’s print Prague Post, and a report on how the Civic Democrats (ODS) and Social Democrats (ČSSD) may look to form a “grand coalition” between themselves and bypass [...]
The second round of Senate elections ended in triumph for the opposition Social Democrats (ČSSD). For full analysis on the implications of the victory on the governing coalition check out the Oct. 27 print edition of the Prague Post, but here is a summary of how things broke down… ČSSD won 12 of [...]
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will attend the NATO summit Nov. 19-20 in Lisbon. “I will go to the Russia-NATO summit,” he said at an Oct. 19 press conference. “This will further the work for necessary compromises and developing a dialogue between the Russian Federation and the North Atlantic alliance as a whole.” U.S. President Barack [...]
Get a full round up and analysis of the local and Senate election results in the Oct. 20 print edition of the Prague Post, but here are some early Sunday morning results. The Civic Democrats (ODS) have lost control of city councils in all of the Czech Republic’s major cities with the exception [...]
It was hard to notice, but a former United States’ plan for missile defense in Europe is becoming a NATO plan. And the project is receiving endorsement at the highest levels… NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (with the likely help of a team of public relations experts) penned a opinion piece in today’s International [...]
On Oct. 8 jailed dissident intellectual Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China,” according to the Prize committee. On Oct. 11 Liu’s wife went to visit him in prison. Upon returning home she was placed under house arrest. Chinese prison officials reportedly [...]
Check out today’s print edition of The Prague Post for details about how tensions between President Václav Klaus and Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg could be working to divide the governing coalition. Here are a few excerpts from our interview with political analyst Bohumil Doležal (former chief political advisor to Klaus when he was prime minister) [...]
When was the last time you heard a European leader speak about Bosnia-Herzogovina? Well, today, the state that was created in 1995 on Air Force base in Dayton, Ohio held elections at a time that is as close to becoming failed-state as it has been since the brutal wars of the early 1990s. The [...]