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 [...]

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) [...]

President Václav Klaus spoke in Parliament Sept. 7 for the first time in seven years. Among those drawing  criticism from the President was the Constituional Court. “The trend towards various court bodies usurping more power than what belongs to them that has been evident in this country and the whole of Europe in the past [...]