Poland: Activist arrested over posters of Virgin Mary and Jesus with rainbow halo
Warsaw, Poland – According to local media, a 51-year-old woman has been arrested and accused of profaning the Black MadonnaContinue Reading
Category: Culture & Society
Bratislava to host first-ever Forbes under-30 youth talent summit in June
Bratislava, Slovakia – An elite group of young Slovak entrepreneurs and disruptors will gather in Bratislava next month for aContinue Reading
Slovakia: Jan Kuciak receives posthumous national journalism award
Bratislava, Slovakia – Jan Kuciak, the investigative reporter murdered one year ago with his fiancee, was awarded this week the nationalContinue Reading
Emil Zátopek biopic starts shooting in the Czech Republic
Prague, Czech Republic – Czech director David Ondříček has started the shooting of a movie about Emil Zátopek, the legendaryContinue Reading
Rock’n’rolling Guinness World Record broken in Wrocław, Poland
Wrocław, Poland – Poland just broke yet another Guinness World Record of simultaneous guitar playing… which it had already setContinue Reading
Czech, Hungarian and Polish accents named among world’s sexiest
Prague, Czech Republic – The Big 7 Travel website conducted a wide-ranging international survey to put one of the world’sContinue Reading
Dutch attackers of Prague waiter sentenced to jail
Prague, Czech Republic – Two Dutch nationals accused of severely beating up a waiter in Prague last year were sentenced,Continue Reading
Why are Poles taking #BananaSelfies?
Warsaw, Poland – Poland’s artists, celebrities and opposition politicians are posting photos of themselves eating bananas to protest the National Museum’sContinue Reading
Who are the foreigners living in the Czech Republic?
Brno, Czech Republic – The Czech Republic is quickly becoming one of the most popular destinations for foreigners to studyContinue Reading
Warsaw, Prague and Budapest among most ‘Instagrammable’ cities in Europe
Warsaw, Poland – Pack your phones, Instagrammers, it’s time to up your game. The Big 7 Travel website has compiledContinue Reading
Sacking of Prague’s National Gallery director causes uproar
Prague, Czech Republic – The Czech cultural sector is in turmoil. Czech Culture Minister sacks two prominent heads of artContinue Reading
Kinolod’: New cinema in Prague opens on a boat
Prague, Czech Republic – Prague-based film fans already had a wide range of options to enjoy a night out at theContinue Reading
Slovakia’s Smer, Czech Euroscepticism and Poland’s catechism in troubled waters… What’s new?
Didn’t have time to read the news lately? Kafkadesk’s got you covered. Here’s our recap of what’s been going on:Continue Reading
Jewish Congress outraged by Poland’s ‘anti-semitic’ Judas lynching ritual
Krakow, Poland – The World Jewish Congress (WJC) has expressed its outrage over a Polish town’s Good Friday ritual lynching of aContinue Reading
‘The Witcher’ Netflix series to be released before the end of the year
Warsaw, Poland – Netflix announced earlier this week that its adaptation of the book series by Andrzej Sapkowski, which is currently filmingContinue Reading
