Leaders of the Visegrad Four (V4) nations - the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia - met in Prague on Sunday (November 17) to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution.
The revolution in 1989 brought the end of communism in what was then Czechoslovakia and was one of the major events that marked the end of the Cold War.
It comes after around a quarter million Czechs rallied against Prime Minister Andrej Babis and President Milos Zeman on Saturday (November 16) over concerns the pair are chipping away at democracy in the deeply divided nation.
Protesters filled Prague's Letna park, waving Czech and EU flags at the site of the biggest rallies in November 1989 when communist rule in Czechoslovakia crumbled peacefully weeks after the Berlin Wall fell.
Both Zeman and Babis have kept a low profile in the lead up to the 30-year anniversary, which features events around the city and a reenactment of the student protest that sparked the wider rallies.
Autor: gf / Źródło: TVN24 News in English, Reuters