Czech Republic

Bart Mongoven
The International Financial Corp. announced recently it is joining forces with the United Nations’ top expert on the business/human rights issue to study the impact of investment agreements on citizens in the developing world. [more]
July 25, 2007 1955 GMT
A natural gas pipeline connecting Turkey to Greece will be ready to start shipments Aug. 10, and... [more]
June 20, 2007 0202 GMT
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is in her final push to knock a few more items off her ambitious... [more]
June 15, 2007 2134 GMT
Though an emergency conference between NATO and Russia on the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces... [more]
Global Market Brief - Stock
The Airbus A380 and the Boeing 787 Dreamliner are not in competition; They aim to fill fundamentally different roles. [more]
June 13, 2007 1534 GMT
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has called for a June 19 joint session of the Kazakh... [more]
June 8, 2007 1657 GMT
Leftist parties dominated European politics throughout the 1990s and the early years of the 21st... [more]
June 5, 2007 1730 GMT
By Peter Zeihan and Bart Mongoven European leaders have expressed dismay over... [more]
June 4, 2007 2155 GMT
There is trouble within Kazakhstan's family dynasty. Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev issued... [more]
May 31, 2007 2000 GMT
Editor's Note: This is the second installment of a two-part report on the... [more]
May 24, 2007 2007 GMT
Editor's Note: This is the first installment of a two-part report on the... [more]
May 24, 2007 1646 GMT
NATO is considering building a new ballistic missile defense site in southeastern Europe to... [more]
May 18, 2007 1926 GMT
France's new president, Nicolas Sarkozy, said May 18 the French government plans to sell its... [more]
May 16, 2007 1913 GMT
As world leaders gather for the G-8 and U.N. General Assembly meetings this summer, they will... [more]
May 15, 2007 0200 GMT
EU president for the first half of 2007, Germany has about six remaining weeks to push through... [more]
May 1, 2007 1528 GMT
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the far-right presidential candidate who got knocked out of the election in... [more]
April 30, 2007 2251 GMT
The "political father" of modern-day Croatia, Ivica Racan, died April 29, leaving the country... [more]
April 26, 2007 2222 GMT
In his annual state of the union speech, Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested April 26 that... [more]
April 24, 2007 1904 GMT
By Peter Zeihan In the 19 years since the Berlin Wall was pulled down, the... [more]
April 5, 2007 2058 GMT
The European Union proposed April 4 to remove all remaining quotas and tariffs on products... [more]