Domestic Affairs
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Social Democrats win across the border in Slovakia
Just two weeks after elections here in the Czech Republic, neighboring Slovaks went to the polls this past Saturday. From a comparative perspective, there are several…
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Czech Republic protests German border controls
All eyes are on the World Cup in Germany at the moment, and while the Czech Republic and the hosts could face each other in the quarterfinals, the two countries' diplomats…
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Greens to challenge electoral system at Constitutional Court
The Green Party have decided to challenge the electoral system at the Constitutional Court, claiming the system discriminates against smaller parties. Experts say if the…
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Addressing the Ghosts of Communism
More than a week after elections in the Czech Republic saw support for the Communist Party fall to 12% of the vote, there are still many voices on the Czech scene…
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Czech politicians seek way out of election stalemate
It is exactly one week since general elections in the Czech Republic produced a stalemate, with the centre right and centre left blocks each winning 100 seats in the lower…
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Is 16 too young to vote?
The Czech Republic often suffers from post-election stalemates, yet there has never been sufficient political will to change the election system from proportional to…
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Paroubek meets Topolanek for start of crucial post-election talks
Leaders of the two biggest parties in parliament held their first official talks on Friday since the elections. The meeting, between Mirek Topolanek, leader of the Civic…
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Nervous Slovaks watch Czech coalition talks two weeks before early elections
The post-election talks here are being followed with some interest across the border in Slovakia, which holds early elections in just under two weeks' time. Czechs and…
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Newly-elected MP says he was offered bribe - apparently to break parliamentary deadlock
Just days after the Czech election ended in stalemate, allegations of scandal have already surfaced: a claim that a bribe was secretly offered to break the parliamentary…
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Surprises of the June 2006 elections
This past weekend's elections in the Czech Republic confirmed some earlier predictions, such as the fact that the Greens would cross the 5% threshold and find themselves…
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With deadlock in lower house series of confidence votes possible
The leadership of the Civic Democrats, who came first in this past weekend's general elections, have launched official talks on forming a new coalition government. After…
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Economics, not regionalism, root of Czech voting divide
The weekend's elections have produced a perfect split in parliament. If you look at a map of the election results, it also shows an almost perfect split in the way Czechs…
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