Czech Republic, which is the last holdout for the Lisbon Treaty to come into effect, today revealed its reservations. Those are related to property claims.

Poland today signed and ratified the Lisbon Treaty after the Irish said Yes to the treaty in the referendum last week. Now the last holdout is the Czech Republic.

The Czech mortgage market is showing signs of recovery. While the mortgage rates are in very good levels, getting mortgage loans is difficult. The Mortgage Broker Association (AHM) announced that its brokers in the first quarter of this year mediated mortgages in the volume of nearly Kč 3.9 billion (€146 million), a drop of 2 percent compared with Q1 2008.

Prague's loss of no-confidence vote may lead to a damaging power struggle within the 27-member union.

A new center for the defense against weapons of mass destruction was opened in the eastern Czech Republic on Thursday.

The United States and Czech Republic are negotiating on a missile defense treaty to allow for a possible U.S. radar in the European country, spokesman Jan Hlousek said Tuesday.

Czech President Vaclav Klaus says individual freedoms are more endangered than the climate. In a wide-ranging interview with RFE/RL, Klaus took aim at one of his favorite recent targets -- those calling for urgent action on global warming.

Czech President Vaclav Klaus says opposition to a planned U.S. base near Prague must be respected -- and that it's up to politicians to explain to the Czech public why they should play host.

A team of U.S. experts is expected to arrive this month in the Czech Republic to examine a place where Washington could set up a missile defense base.

The Czech government has given the U.S. the go ahead to deploy a missile-defense radar near the town of Misov, 90 kilometers (50 miles) southwest of Prague, the country's Security Council official said Tuesday.

Tests confirmed that hundreds of turkeys in Eastern Czech Republic died of the H5N1 bird flu virus. It was the first time the virus was detected among poultry in the Czech Republic, said Zbynek Semerad, a spokesman for the Czech veterinary authority.