Interview: ‘There is so much about Czech and Slovak history that lends itself to the espionage genre’
This week, Kafkadesk spoke with James Silvester, a British writer and author of a fascinating series of thrillers set inContinue Reading
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KafkaDigest: Central Europe in the Spotlight
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Slovak coach confident of Euro 2020 spot
Slovak manager Pavel Hapal is confident his team can triumph against Ireland in March’s Euro 2020 play-off semi-final and setContinue Reading
Central Europe continues to slip in corruption index
Warsaw, Poland – All four Visegrad countries have continued to drop precipitously in Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI),Continue Reading
Second season of ‘The Witcher’ to shoot in Czech Republic and Slovakia
Bratislava, Slovakia – The second season of Netflix’s 2019 hit-show The Witcher will film in locations in Slovakia and theContinue Reading
Slovak Jewish cemetery vandals identified as five boys aged 9 to 12, not ‘extremists’
Bratislava, Slovakia – Žilina Police announced on Facebook that the culprits behind the desecration of gravestones in the Jewish cemeteryContinue Reading
After Poland, Hungary and Slovakia, first H5N8 bird flu case detected in Czech Republic
Prague, Czech Republic – The Czech Republic is the latest Central European country to be hit by an outbreak ofContinue Reading
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Slovak prosecutor drops racism charges against former PM Robert Fico
Bratislava, Slovakia – A special prosecutor revoked the racism-related charges against former Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, the TASR newsContinue Reading
Slovakia: Former soldier admits to killing Jan Kuciak and his fiancee
Bratislava, Slovakia – Miroslav Marcek, one of the four accused standing trial for the murder of Jan Kuciak and MartinaContinue Reading
Interview: A behind-the-scenes look at the former Eastern bloc’s secret police
With the fall of the Iron Curtain at the end of 1989 came the collapse of the communist regimes ofContinue Reading
Czech Republic and Slovakia set new car production records in 2019
Bratislava, Slovakia – Both the Czech Republic and Slovakia have produced an unprecedented amount of cars in 2019, setting aContinue Reading
Poles trust Donald Trump the most in Europe
Warsaw, Poland – According to a new report by the Pew Research Center, a non-partisan US-based opinion pollster, Poland isContinue Reading
Top Google searches in Central Europe in 2019
Budapest, Hungary – There are many ways to determine the most consequential and decisive events of the past year. OneContinue Reading
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