Domestic Affairs
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PM faces party showdown in Brno as crucial tax vote looms
Prime Minister Petr Nečas has a date with destiny this weekend, at a conference of his Civic Democratic Party in Brno. Mr Nečas will try to use a leadership election to…
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‘Jack of all trades’ Radek John stuns politicians, journalists with new job
Radek John, MP and head of the small opposition party Public Affairs, has announced a rather unusual career change; Mr John confirmed that as of today he was returning to…
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Lower house postpones crucial decision on tax package
Coalition MPs in the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday postponed a crucial vote on a controversial tax bill until next week in the hopes that by then the troubled Civic…
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Václav Klaus awards state honors for the last time as president
Politicians, cultural figures and church dignitaries gathered in the Vladislav Hall at Prague Castle on Sunday to celebrate the 94th anniversary of the birth of…
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Greenpeace: consumers conned, renewables discredited in solar power scam
Electricity prices are set to rise again in 2013, as the government seeks to recoup losses from huge subsidies paid out during the recent boom in solar power. Cheap solar…
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Government crisis impacts 2013 state budget
The lower house of Parliament on Wednesday returned a bill on the 2013 state budget to the finance minister for re-drafting after the cabinet was unable to win support for…
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PM, finance minister, scramble to reach deal or find alternative to tax package
Czech Prime Minister Petr Nečas is facing arguably his biggest political hurdle since taking office: to convince rebel MPs from within his own party to toe the line on the…
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Czech Army to lay off 1,500 personnel in 2013
Next year, the Czech Army will see 1,500 members of the military, especially high-ranking officers, laid off, part of necessary changes in a period of strict austerity…
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Social Democrats triumph in senate elections, deepening government crisis
The second round of Senate elections over the weekend dealt another blow to the centre-right coalition government. The left-wing parties boosted their dominant position in…
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Czechoslovakia in 1991: What to do with former secret police collaborators?
One of the most passionate debates in Czechoslovakia in the first years after the fall of communism was over what to do with people who had collaborated with the secret…
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Social Democrat MP Jan Hamáček: Communist Party’s strong showing in regional elections should be a…
With talks underway on forming regional governments, the Social Democratic Party is still coming to terms with the fact that although it came first in last weekend’s…
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Embattled PM backtracks on tax-reforms in the wake of election defeat
The ruling parties’ humiliating defeat in the weekend regional and first round of senate elections have clearly shaken the government’s resolve to effect painful reforms…
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