Giant Pac-Man created to denounce Czech Prime Minister’s business empire
Prague, Czech Republic – A group of Czech activists cut a giant Pac-Man figure in a field to denounce theContinue Reading
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Prague, Czech Republic – A group of Czech activists cut a giant Pac-Man figure in a field to denounce theContinue Reading
Bratislava, Slovakia – Slovakia has passed new legislation introducing a total ban on wolf hunting as of next month. AccordingContinue Reading
Prague, Czech Republic – The Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia are facing historic droughts threatening their agricultural sector, water resourcesContinue Reading
Prague, Czech Republic – The Czech Republic is the latest Central European country to be hit by an outbreak ofContinue Reading
Warsaw, Poland – Ranked 24th worldwide in The Economist’s annual ‘Global Food Security Index’ 2019, Poland takes the top spotContinue Reading
Warsaw, Poland – The EU has noted a sharp rise in illnesses and deaths linked to Salmonella and other food-borneContinue Reading
Brno, Czech Republic – Ursula von der Leyen’s final list of EU Commissioners candidates was revealed after weeks of backbreakingContinue Reading
Wroclaw, Poland – With a consumption of 98 litres per year per capita, Poles are the second biggest beer drinkersContinue Reading
Warsaw, Poland – According to experts, Poland risks a serious water crisis in the coming years as hundreds of riversContinue Reading
Bratislava, Slovakia – According to a report by the Agriculture Ministry released on Thursday, the African swine fever virus (ASFV) hasContinue Reading
Is anyone hungry around here? Admittedly, this is a very bad, but sadly typical joke that foreigners tell Hungarians. AsContinue Reading
Brno, Czech Republic – A long-standing claim and source of frustration among Central and Eastern European countries, including the VisegradContinue Reading
Prague, Czech Republic – On Thursday morning, Czech police raided offices of the Agriculture Ministry. According to local sources, theContinue Reading
Krakow, Poland – Poland finds itself at the heart of an escalating “sick cow” tainted meat scandal that has spreadContinue Reading
Warsaw, Poland – Almost 1,500 people have been sickened by Salmonella linked to Polish eggs in an outbreak that hasContinue Reading
Warsaw, Poland – In this third episode of our series on Central European countries’ most remarkable – or deplorable –Continue Reading