Domestic Affairs
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Environment Ministry overhauls flagship carbon cutting programme following cool response
Global warming is climbing ever higher up the agenda as world leaders prepare for a key meeting in December to agree on emissions cuts. The Czech Republic would have liked…
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Paper claims foreigners could be working as virtual slaves in Czech Republic
Could tens of thousands of foreign migrants be working in almost slave-like conditions in the Czech Republic? That’s the conclusion of an in-depth investigation by the…
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Topolánek’s Tuscan holiday becomes national cause célèbre
There’s usually at least one big news story that breaks the torpid waters of the so-called “cucumber” or silly season, that time of year when Czech editors and reporters…
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Communists in row over whether to apologise for past regime
A row has broken out in the Communist Party over whether or not to apologise for crimes committed by Czechoslovakia’s former Communist regime. Twenty years after the…
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Government launches second phase of project to repatriate foreign workers
The Czech Interior Ministry on Monday unveiled plans to repatriate another wave of foreigners from non-EU countries who have lost their jobs. The government’s voluntary…
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Czechs clarify smoking legislation but total ban still long way off
The Czech Republic clarified – rather than tightened – its smoking legislation on Friday, when the Senate passed an amendment to the law on smoking in public places. The…
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Academics hold mock execution of “Czech science” in protest at cuts
Members of the academic community are raising the alarm over planned budget cuts for the Academy of Sciences. The cuts – proposed by the government’s Council for Research…
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PM Fischer visits Israel
The Czech prime minister, Jan Fischer, is in Israel for a three-day working visit. After meeting the Israeli president, Shimon Peres, in Jerusalem on Wednesday, he’s set…
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Czech government gives green light for far reaching development blueprint
The Czech caretaker government has approved far reaching plans for how the country could develop over the next decades. The controversial development plan earmarks where…
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Czech-Romany relations hit low point, says government report
A week after Ottawa brought back visas for Czech citizens over the large numbers of Czech Romanies seeking asylum in Canada, the Czech government put out a report on the…
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Czech MEP arrives in parliament in cycling gear
When the new European Parliament held its plenary session in Strasbourg on Tuesday, all the MEPs were smartly turned out for its first meeting. Except, that is, for Edvard…
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Czech Republic faces uphill battle to win EU-wide retort to Canadian visas
The Czech Republic has pinned its hopes on the European Union for a forceful retort to Canada’s imposition of visas on Czech citizens. Prague has already officially lodged…
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