Domestic Affairs
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David Rath is PM's choice to become new health minister
Eight days after the firing of Milada Emmerova as health minister, the Czech government now has a successor in David Rath, the head of the professional body of Czech…
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Masin admirers to retrace 1953 escape from Czechoslovakia
The fifty-year-old story of the Masin brothers still has the power to provoke passionate debate here in the Czech Republic. Should members of the group who shot their way…
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Paroubek searches for replacement for Martin Jahn
Social Democrat Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek continues to search for a replacement for outgoing deputy prime minister Martin Jahn, who announced his departure from…
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Resignation of Deputy Prime Minister Martin Jahn a blow to Social Democrats
Deputy Prime Minister for the Economy Martin Jahn is dominating the news here in the Czech Republic, after announcing that he is to quit politics by the end of the year…
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Business briefs
Parliamentary committee to investigate Unipetrol gets green light; 'Pirate of Prague' Viktor Kozeny awaiting extradition ruling; Private doctors, health-care facilities…
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Health Minister Emmerova sacked as PM tries to "stabilise" health care system
Health Minister Milada Emmerova was sacked on Wednesday as the government struggled to defuse an ongoing crisis in the Czech health care system. Her removal comes a week…
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Senate proposes to ban propagation of Nazism and Communism
The upper house of Parliament on Thursday approved a bill that would ban propagation of Nazism and Communism in the Czech Republic. Anyone caught violating the ban could…
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GPs go ahead with one day strike
Money problems in the Czech health sector appear to have reached a head. Hundreds of private GPs across the country closed their offices for a one day strike on Thursday…
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Private doctors' strike over late reimbursements set to go ahead
Eleventh-hour negotiations by Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek have failed to avert private doctors' plans to strike over chronically late payments from the state-run…
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Filip takes over as Communist Party leader
Over the last 12 years few politicians have attracted more controversy than the Communist Party's Miroslav Grebenicek. Every May 1st as party leader it was his rhetoric…
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Prime Minister agrees to Unipetrol probe but on his own terms
The scandal over the privatization of the petrochemicals firm Unipetrol, following accusations of corruption directed at the ruling Social Democrats, has taken an…
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Are Czechs warming up to the Communists?
If elections were held today, opinion polls suggest, voters' support would be almost equally divided between the left and the right side of the political spectrum. Most…
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