Prague  -  US plans to base a missile defence radar in the Czech Republic are critical to showing that eastern Europe can stand up to Russia, Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said Monday.

Prague  - Unemployment in the Czech Republic in the first quarter of 2008 fell to 4.7 per cent, its lowest level since 1997, the state statistics office said Friday.

Prague  - The centre-right government of the Czech Republic survived its third vote of no confidence Wednesday, with 101 parliamentarians backing the government against 98 who voted against in the

Prague  - The Czech Republic and Slovakia have agreed to form a joint military unit of 1,500 soldiers, reports said Saturday in Prague-based newspapers.

Prague  - Czech and US negotiators Thursday failed to wrap up an accord on the stationing of US troops at a planned missile-defence base in the former Soviet-bloc nation.