Domestic Affairs
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Gloves off as PM challenges opposition leader to duel
We often speak about the cut and thrust of politics, of politicians battling it out and crossing swords, but on Thursday Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek literally threw down…
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A look ahead at the elections, 50 days before polling day
It's exactly 50 days now until polling stations open in the Czech Republic, and the parties are gearing up for what looks like a tough campaign. Billboards are springing…
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Constitutional Court: landlords can sue state over losses caused by rent control
There has been yet another new development in the ongoing battle over rent control in the Czech Republic. Only a month after a law on the phasing out of rent control was…
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Royalists, Balbinovci and Ostrava radio station among 26 parties fighting election
It's less than two months before Czechs go to the polls in an eagerly anticipated parliamentary election. Those of you living in the Czech Republic may have noticed the…
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Czech healthcare system - equal access to services for all the insured?
The preamble of an official publication of the Czech Health Ministry reads: "Czech healthcare is founded on the following principles: solidarity; a high level of autonomy…
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Government's flood prevention plan may involve moving house
Clean up work is underway in many parts of the country following a week of heavy flooding and individual municipalities have started assessing the degree of flood damage…
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NBU inquiry reveals severe shortcomings in security vetting procedure
The Czech Republic's security apparatus has at times looked very rickety indeed. The latest revelations, about the country's security vetting agency, the National Security…
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Humanitarian aid for flood victims
Flood waters in the Czech Republic are slowly but surely receding and though some areas are still underwater, the focus has now switched from crisis management, to…
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Usti "through worst" but city and region still suffering ravages of the Elbe River
It appears after a week of floods in the Czech Republic the worst is probably over and water levels on swollen rivers have stabilised and even, in some places, gone down.
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Straka withdraws from election race after row over citizenship
The Czech Republic lost one of the more colourful candidates for the forthcoming parliamentary elections this week, after the Christian Democrats announced that former…
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Czech Senate proposes law banning Communist Party symbols
In October last year, an explicit ban on the propagation of Nazism and Communism was proposed by the upper house of Czech parliament, intended to force the Communist Party…
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The Greens - The new force on the Czech political scene?
One year ago, the Green Party was a small and relatively obscure political party that had some success at the municipal level, but its national poll numbers were well…
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