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Will poor Senate showing impact ANO approach to presidential vote?
Will a "very bad" performance by ANO in Senate elections impact how the party approachs January’s presidential poll?
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Pundit: Czech voters are giving the government a second chance
Did the energy crunch, soaring inflation and global security concerns impact the vote in the municipal and Senate elections? Jiří Pehe says not as much as was predicted.
Business
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Czechs saving where they can as they brace for energy crunch
With inflation at over 17 percent and energy prices expected to go through the roof, economizing has become the order of the day for the vast majority of Czechs.
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“A reset will be necessary” – survey looks into why Czechs are unwilling to learn new job skills
Four out of ten people in Czechia expect that they will be doing the same job until they retire, a new survey shows.
Foreign policy
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Czech foreign minister: Russia’s imperialism must be stopped at Ukraine’s borders
The Czech foreign minister has slammed Russia’s plan to annex the occupied eastern regions of Ukraine as "a farce“, stressing that the annexations would not be recognized.
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Pact of Free Cities plans to create think-tank to help Ukraine’s “future reconstruction”
This week Prague hosted a summit of the Pact of Free Cities, where support for Ukraine was at the center of focus.
Society
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Shocking case of institutionalized patient highlights inhumane practices in Czech mental homes
An investigative team at Czech Radio has unveiled the shocking story of a young woman who was held in mechanical restraint in a mental home in Opava twelve long years.
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Erasmus programme still going strong despite Covid and Brexit
Around a hundred representatives of international education agencies across Europe gathered in Prague this week to discuss current challenges facing the Erasmus+ program.
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Culture
History
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Forestry worker in Bohemia digs up Bronze Age treasure
A forestry worker in north Bohemia came upon a valuable prehistoric treasure: a massive bracelet and other objects dating back to the Bronze Age.
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Historian Mark Cornwall: Treason is a very sexy subject – it’s like murder
UK historian Mark Cornwall is currently preparing one book that should be entitled Queer Bohemians and another on treason under the Habsburg Empire.
