Domestic Affairs
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Slovaks echo Czechs as left score hollow victory, but right head for power
The wind of change has been blowing across Central Europe this spring, with elections in Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic and most recently Slovakia significantly…
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Are cuts the answer to growing Czech public debt and an expanding deficit?
One phrase, fiscal responsibility, and one word, cuts, dominate Czech economic and political life following elections to the lower house at the end of May. The right-wing…
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Upcoming Civic Democrat party congress might stall government negotiations
Three weeks after general elections, three centre-right parties are still holding talks on forming a coalition government. On Friday, the leader of the strongest party…
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Mayors dismayed over lottery law veto
President Václav Klaus surprised many earlier this week when he vetoed an amendment to the Lottery Act that was intended to further regulate the gambling industry. What’s…
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Analyst: change of legislation to allow direct presidential elections unlikely
The three parties who are in the process of forming a centre-right government have agreed to try to change the Czech constitution in a way that would allow the president…
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Pension reform draft proposes lower contributions, individual accounts
The Czech pension system is to undergo a major overhaul in the coming years. On Wednesday, government appointed experts unveiled a pension reform draft that would enhance…
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Potential government coalition plans to introduce university tuition fees
Negotiators for three Czech political parties holding talks on forming the country’s next government have agreed on introducing tuition fees for the first time at public…
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Czech Christian Democrats at a crossroads
The recent Czech general elections saw voters swing away from the established parties in favour of newcomers. One of the traditional parties that got left out in the cold…
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Czechs brace for hard times
As the country’s centre-right parties hammer out an agreement on a future government one message is coming across loud and clear – whatever the deal - it will involve…
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Czech children take their issues to Parliament
Friday is the big day for the group of youngsters selected to present their issue-oriented projects to the Czech Senate. This is the idea of the Citizen Project, the…
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Nečas tasked with forming new government, given two weeks to make progress
President Václav Klaus has tasked the leader of the Civic Democratic Party, Petr Nečas, to try and form the country’s next government, roughly a week after the general…
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President sanctions talks on centre-right coalition, but stops short of naming prime minister…
Three Czech centre-right parties - the Civic Democrats, TOP 09 and the centrist Public Affairs – on Wednesday signed an agreement to create a centre-right coalition of…
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