Domestic Affairs
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Smoke in the face of Czech anti-tobacco campaigners
The Czech Republic has taken a step against the anti-smoking flow in the rest of Europe. While anti-smoking bans have spread across the continent in recent years, Czech…
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Several charged after police mount biggest operation against Czech neo-Nazis
Political extremism, especially on the far right, has been a big issue in the Czech Republic over the last six months, with a strong perception that it is on the rise. It…
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President Klaus’ hopes dashed as eurosceptics take a beating in the European elections
There were a lot of long faces in Czech politics as the results of elections to the European Parliament came in, and one of them was that of President Václav Klaus, the…
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Green party leader resigns over poor showing in the European elections
The head of the Green Party, Martin Bursík, has resigned from his post over the party’s poor showing in the European elections. The Greens received just over two percent…
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Social Democrats left with ‘lessons to learn’ from European election defeat
What will the results of this weekend’s European elections actually mean for the parties in the Czech Parliament? And could we have seen them coming? To find out I spoke…
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EP election results biggest success in years for Civic Democrats
The centre-right Civic Democrats headed by former prime minister Mirek Topolánek were the clear winners in the Czech Republic’s elections to the European Parliament at the…
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Pirates take aim on parliament with new political party
One of the parties that will be vying for votes in early elections this autumn will be a piracy-advocacy group. That’s not piracy on the high seas mind you, but the act of…
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Czechs commemorate Polish elections which ‘paved way’ for Velvet Revolution
Leaders from around the continent gathered in Krakow on Thursday to mark 20 years since Poland’s first partly free elections which swept the anti-communist movement…
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Fischer caretaker government to receive seal of approval from parliament
Sunday night is election night in the Czech Republic – at least that’s when the results of Friday and Saturday’s elections to the European Parliament will be revealed. But…
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Turnout takes central place in European elections
Europeans started voting Thursday in elections to the European Parliament with citizens in Britain and the Netherlands leading the way in the 27-country poll. Czechs will…
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Communists cry foul at Czech TV documentary on Horáková show trial
The Communist Party has written to complain at a documentary on Czech Television about the show-trial of Milada Horáková – being shown in the run-up to the European…
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Havel disturbed by “coarseness” of Czech politics as eggs, fists fly
The former president Václav Havel has said he is disturbed at what he called the increasingly coarse nature of Czech politics, something he believes will only widen the…
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