Domestic Affairs
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Three-billion-crown national football stadium to be built at Letna
The bulldozers could be moving in to Prague's Letna in the near future, after plans were unveiled on Wednesday to build a national football stadium on the site of the…
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"You Decide" - awareness campaign encourages young people to come out and vote
In about a month's time, Czechs will go to the polls for parliamentary elections. Latest opinion polls predict that the turnout this year will be around 53 percent…
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May Day without the Communists forever?
For decades Letna Plain was reserved on May 1st for the Communist Party - whether it was the totalitarian Communist Party of Czechoslovakia before 1989 or the Communist…
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Thousands gather to mark "May Day without Communism"
For over forty years, May Day meant only one thing for the people of Prague. The Communist party organised mass parades on Letna Plain, a big open park near the castle, to…
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Police officer suspected of beating government official at anti-extremists rally
May 1 in the Czech Republic is a day marked by declarations of love and by political demonstrations. While the country's love birds enjoy the spring, Communists, Social…
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Communist MP badly beaten in "political" attack
The Czech Republic is a pretty stable place politically - give or take the odd government crisis and vote of confidence now and then. Violence, certainly, is a rare…
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John Major speaks in Prague on Czech public-private partnerships
Public-private partnerships, which promote cooperation between the state and the private sector, have met with success worldwide. In the UK, for example, such projects…
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Deadline soon for Czechs abroad to register for elections
This year's general elections are just over six weeks away. Preparations are underway around the country but also abroad, at the Czech Republic's embassies and consulates…
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Lety pig farm removal on the back-burner
Lety in south Bohemia is once again in the news - after previously promising to buy a pig farm on the site of a concentration camp where over 300 Romanies died during the…
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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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