When West Isn't Best,  17 May 1999
The Kosovo crisis provides illuminating insights into the Czech Republic.

Shirkers of the World Unite,  3 May 1999
Finding out the hard way how prepared the Czech Republic is to enter the EU

Czechs Seek Yet Another Model,  19 April 1999
Some Czechs think the solution to their country's political and economic problems lies in copying someone else.

"Pathetic Cowards"?,   6 April 1999
Since the onset of NATO air strikes inKosovo, the Czech Republic has been undergoing a peculiar drole de guerre.

Bureaucracy Is as Czech as Beer, 22 March 1999
If there's one thing that gets foreigners and Czechs alike hot under the collar, it's Czech bureaucracy. Wrongly?

NATO-ing the Line?,  8 March 1999
The Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO— but for what?

Concrete Conclusions,  22 February 1999
The Czech high rise block endures as a (quite literally) towering monument to the non-achievements of socialism.

A Touch of Evil?,, 8 February 1999
Is the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia really "evil"?