Domestic Affairs
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Doctors' protest ends in march through Prague
Healthcare has emerged as one of the major issues in this election campaign, not least because of the vocal protests of many Czech health workers against the recent…
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Prime minister & opposition party leader face off in important debate
The Czech Republic is now days away from a general election that will decide on the country's next government: in all likelihood either by the Social Democratic Party…
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Will Green Party grow in next week's election?
The Czech Republic's political parties are busy with last minute campaigning in the lead-up to next week's parliamentary elections. Green party leaders on Wednesday held a…
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Health workers oppose reforms with "week of unrest"
I have just walked out of a pharmacy with prescription pain killers for my ailing back, anti-histamines against my allergies, and some medication for my sprained wrist…
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Czech politicians come to blows two weeks ahead of parliamentary elections
It was a resounding slap that reverberated for hours after it had been dealt. At a meeting of Czech dentists on Saturday Miroslav Macek, a former deputy prime minister in…
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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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