Domestic Affairs
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Caretaker cabinet’s plan to adopt euro in 2016 could meet indifference of future government
The Czech Finance Ministry has outlined an ambitious plan to meet all the criteria for adopting the common European currency. If all goes well, the euro could replace the…
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Officials outline Czech participation in European Year against Poverty and Social Exclusion
The year 2010 has been declared European Year against Poverty and Social Exclusion. On Friday, the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs launched a campaign against…
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Polish president on state visit to Czech Republic
The Polish president Lech Kaczynski is currently in the Czech Republic for a two-day state visit. His Czech counterpart Václav Klaus presented Mr Kaczynski with the…
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Finnish-style crackdown long way off in Czech smokers' paradise
Finland made international headlines recently with news that its government plans to completely eradicate smoking – not just a ban on smoking in public places, that…
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Government raise tolls for hauliers on Fridays to cut-down on pre-weekend traffic
The Czech government on Monday passed a new directive raising tolls for trucks by half of the current rate on Friday afternoons, in an attempt to curb heavy traffic on…
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Head of nuclear authority opposed to full body x-ray scanners at Czech airports
The Czech government is currently deciding whether to introduce full body scanners at the country’s airports, a move backed by the interior minister. But not everybody is…
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Amnesty International: discrimination of Romany children persists in Czech schools
Romany children in the Czech Republic still face unequal access to education, says Amnesty International in a report which has just been released. Two years after the…
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Prague conference seeks to help NATO chart new course
The world’s most powerful military alliance, NATO, is in the middle of a far reaching and overdue rethink of its strategy. Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright…
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Czech government approves package of measures to attack corruption scourge
The Czech Republic last year slipped down the rankings of more or less corruption free countries. Politicians’ failure to tackle what it almost universally recognised as a…
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Czech EU commissioner-designate grilled by MEPs
Parliamentary hearings to assess the suitability of candidates for the new European Commission are underway in Brussels with the spotlight now on Štefan Füle, the Czech…
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Court hears government’s case to ban far-right Workers’ Party
On the agenda of the Supreme Administrative Court on Monday is a much-discussed case that has been long in the making: a governmental proposal to dissolve the far-right…
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“Liberal” new guidelines don’t go far enough, says head of Prague drug counselling service
Under guidelines introduced on January 1, the Czech Republic has some of the most liberal legislation in Europe when it comes to drug use. Whereas previously having “an…
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