Domestic Affairs
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Independents and citizens’ groups score strongly in local elections
Local elections and the first round of voting to a third of the upper house, the Senate, delivered a mixed bag of results over the weekend. Locally, the right wing Civic…
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Senior coalition Civic Democrats lose Prague, other big cities in local elections
The municipal and Senate elections that took place in the Czech Republic over the weekend have no clear winners – but they do have several losers. In the local elections…
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Opposition senate win would pose major threat to coalition budget plans
Major budget cuts are a mainstay of the coalition government’s platform but there is one post-election scenario that could present a major problem for them. The left-wing…
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New parties under pressure to do well in upcoming local and Senate elections, says analyst Jiří Pehe
Czechs around the country will be going to the polls on Friday and Saturday. Record numbers of candidates are running in elections for municipal councils, with one of the…
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New code strips police of power to examine individuals’ tax returns
One of the tools available to police investigating economic crimes is the authorisation to look into personal tax data. However, that will no longer be the case once a new…
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Government wants comprehensive, long-term strategy for Alzheimer’s sufferers and caregivers
At the present time there are around 120 thousand people with Alzheimer’s disease in the Czech Republic. Health experts say they expect that number to quadruple in the…
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Schwarzenberg meets with Clinton on official visit to the US
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Karel Schwarzenberg, is wrapping up a brief, official visit to the United States where he met with his American counterpart Hillary…
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Government’s advisory board proposes makeover of public procurement
The Czech government’s economic advisory council, known as NERV, has come up with a set of measures to curb wide-spread corruption in public procurement. The council…
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Assessing the first hundred days of Petr Nečas
Petr Nečas has now been Czech prime minister for 100 days, a milestone in any leader’s career. He became chairman of the Civic Democratic Party just as campaigning for…
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Roman Joch and the redefining of human rights
“Neo-conservative” is not a term heard too often on the Czech political scene, but when it is then more often than not it’s used in reference to Roman Joch, the outspoken…
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ABL accused of investigating politicians
The daily Mladá fronta Dnes on Thursday revealed that a former Prague district mayor had been intensively monitored by a detective agency four years ago. On Friday the…
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Government unveils opening bid to get to grips with gaming sector
The government has answered local council calls they be given more powers to stamp out gaming machine or so-called herna bars across the country. Proposed legal changes…
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