Domestic Affairs
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A post-crisis interview with Prime Minister Petr Nečas
The Czech government has been through a great deal in the nine months since the three-party coalition was formed. While struggling with wide-ranging systemic reforms, the…
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Small theatre company puts Czech politics on stage
An impromptu production by a small theatre company has become all the rage in Prague. The title of the piece is Blond Bitch and the script is not by a well-known…
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Czech Constitutional Court cancels another part of government’s austerity package
The Czech Constitutional Court has abolished another part of the government’s austerity package. The court on Wednesday ruled invalid the taxation of state support for…
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Civic Democrats celebrate 20 years since party’s foundation
The Czech Republic’s major right-of-centre party, the Civic Democrats, celebrated 20 years since its foundation. At a convention held in Prague on Thursday to mark the…
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Environment minister scales back controversial plans in battle against bark beetle
The Environment Minister Tomáš Chalupa has changed plans by the head of Šumava National Park on how to battle the bark beetle, issuing a decision on Thursday that will…
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Former police chief appointed interior minister
President Vaclav Klaus on Thursday appointed Jan Kubice the country’s new interior minister. The former head of a police squad for fighting organized crime comes with the…
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Pundit predicts problems ahead for re-jigged cabinet
President Václav Klaus has welcomed the coalition agreement reached by the country’s three centre-right parties on Monday night in an effort to save the country’s pro…
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Coalition parties shelve their differences to avert threat of early elections
Leaders of the ruling centre-right coalition stepped away from the brink on Monday night, reaching agreement on a cabinet re-shuffle that would allow the pro-reform…
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President’s use of power an issue again as he assumes a leading role in the government crisis
As the crisis in the Czech government has played out over the last two weeks, the country’s President, Václav Klaus, has taken on a key role in how events have unfolded…
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Analyst Šádí Shanaáh: Czech policy towards Middle East 'an illusion'
Šádí Shanaáh is a Czech-Palestinian expert on international relations who works for the Prague-based think tank Glopolis, and has been a frequent guest in the Czech media…
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Tables turn on Civic Democrats in ongoing government crisis
The Czech government has found itself is in an ever deepening crisis, and it is unclear whether it will be able to right its course or whether the coalition will fall…
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Embryo transfers in IVF: more need not always be better
Health minister Leoš Heger has announced that within a broad reform of the health system he wants to change the rules for fertility treatment. The minister has proposed…
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