Domestic Affairs
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Government’s pension reform under fire
In recent days the centre-right government has come under widespread criticism for its pension reform. The opposition has slammed it, the government’s own economic…
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Think tank recommends English being made sole obligatory foreign language in schools
This week the government’s economic think tank, NERV, issued a report recommending, among several changes, that English be made the only obligatory foreign language in…
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Scandals snowball for Education Minister
Education Minister Josef Dobeš is under increasing pressure as a series of minor affairs have built up over recent weeks into opposition calls for his resignation. Reports…
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Politicians push ahead with formula for direct presidential elections
Political parties in the Czech Republic have just agreed some of the main lines of how a future president would be elected by the people for the first time. But while the…
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Polish President on first state visit to Czech Republic
Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski is on a two-day state visit to the Czech Republic, beginning with a meeting with his Czech counterpart Václav Klaus. As Poland…
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Proposed Czech pension reforms divide pundits
The Czech government has agreed the main lines of one of its most ambitious reforms, that of the creaking pension system. But the formula advanced seems to have won few…
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Proposed law to afford better protection against perpetrators of brutal crimes
In response to growing acts of violence among juveniles, the Czech government has approved an amendment to the law on juvenile crime which would give the courts greater…
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Doctors’ victory seen weakening government’s bargaining position
Doctors unions have agreed to a government pay offer putting more money in their pockets immediately and over the following years. The deal has still to be officially…
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Towns want controversial powers to deal with transients and petty criminals
Mayors from 51 communities across the Czech Republic met this week to discuss problems their constituencies are having with transients, loiterers and petty criminals, most…
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Visegrád central European cooperation marks 20th birthday
Twenty years ago today, a new Central European regional grouping emerged from a meeting of three prime ministers at an historic site overlooking the Danube in Hungary. The…
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Dissatisfied security forces consider their own protest action
As the government struggles to avert a looming health crisis, there are rumbles of discontent in another sphere of the public sector. The UBS police, fire fighters’, and…
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Vít Klepárník of new think tank CESTA: left should no longer be a dirty word
A group of Czech intellectuals including political analyst Jiří Pehe, sociologists Jan Keller and Tereza Stöckelová, and others, felt that ever since the fall of communism…
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