Foreigners and the Czech Republic
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Will foreigners wanting Czech residency have to sit a language exam?
'Strc prst skrz krk' means 'stick you finger through your throat', and is one of the harder Czech phrases to get one's mouth around. This chronic lack of vowels, combined…
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Business News
In Business News this week: a new green card scheme is set to make it easier for foreign workers to fill gaps in the Czech labour market; moves are planned to increase the…
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Business News
In Business News this week: Czechs now earn 79 percent of the European Union average per capita gross domestic product; the unemployment rate falls slightly to 6.3 percent…
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Glen Emery - one of the architects of Prague's "left bank of the 1990s" whose bar inspired Nick Cave
My guest for One on One this week is Canadian native Glen Emery, who was one of the first foreign entrepreneurs to begin operating in the Prague pub trade shortly after…
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Labour shortage once again on agenda as government looks abroad
The financial daily Hospodarske noviny carries a long article on Tuesday about the problem of labour shortages in the Czech Republic, the latest coverage of a much…
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Marsha Kocabova: post-Communist Czechoslovakia was like the Wild Wild West
Marsha Kocabova is a former modern ballet dancer from North Carolina who almost overnight ended up at the side of a prominent dissident in communist Czechoslovakia. Her…
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Non-EU foreigners could have a harder time getting residence permits in the Czech Republic
Foreign nationals from outside the EU seeking to obtain permanent residence in the Czech Republic need to arm themselves with patience - lots of paperwork, long queues at…
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Lost in translation
Any English speaker living in a foreign country has at some stage or another encountered some fairly dodgy English translations. Every ex-pat I know has a funny tale to…
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New amendment proposes stiff penalties for "helping" illegal aliens
At the end of March, Czech Parliament will discuss a new amendment to the law concerning illegal foreign residents in this country. If the bill is approved, helping…
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Children torn between two people, two homelands, two cultures
Six year old Sara Barao is home from Portugal. She arrived as she left - followed at every step by photographers and television crews honing in on a personal tragedy. At…
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Weddings arranged by agencies increasingly popular in Czech Republic
If you have been to a Czech wedding any time in the last few decades, you are probably familiar with the classic format: the same bleak communist-era town hall with an…
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"Twenty-first century slaves" to return to North Korea this year
There are hundreds of North Korean women working in the Czech Republic under a system in which half of the money they earn is said to go straight to Pyongyang. They have…
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