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Former StB observation post in Malá Strana bell tower opens to public
Prague has just seen the opening of a new and rather unusual tourist attraction – a former secret police observation post recently discovered at the top of a bell tower in…
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Airlines watch skies - and balance books - as no-fly losses mount
Flights to and from the Czech Republic are beginning to resume as normal after Czech airspace was reopened on Monday, but the country’s airlines and airports are now…
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Klaus given significant chance to influence monetary policy, euro adoption
There were mild ripples of excitement in the banking world this week when the governor of the central bank announced he would be quitting his post eight months earlier…
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Experts decry 25% “gender pay gap” between Czech women, Czech men
World Equal Pay Day was marked for the first time in the Czech Republic on Thursday, with successful businesswomen among those attending events to draw attention to the…
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Vodka, or methylated spirits? News server uncovers ‘massive’ Czech drinks fraud
A Czech online news server made the remarkable claim on Tuesday that as many as one out of two bottles of spirits sold in the Czech Republic is made on the black market…
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Petr Nečas – safe pair of hands whose reign as party leader could be brief
Mirek Topolánek finally bowed to the inevitable on Thursday, and bowed out of Czech politics. He announced he would relinquish his post of leader of the Civic Democrats on…
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85,000 join Facebook campaign against voluntary Romani lessons in schools
There’s been an unexpectedly negative reaction to a proposal by the Education Ministry to offer voluntary classes in Romani – the language of the country’s 300,000 Roma or…
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Právo: former ‘People’s Prosecutor’ could be released as early as next year
The Czech daily Právo reported this week that a former Communist prosecutor sent to prison for her role in the judicial murder of democratic politician Milada Horáková in…
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Prince Charles visits revolutionary ‘eco-friendly’ village in Moravia
Britain’s Prince Charles spent a day in Moravia on Monday, and paid a visit to the country’s first ‘eco-friendly’ village - Hostětín, in the White Carpathian mountains…
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Minister resigns after pressure from PM over controversial power plant
Environment Minister Jan Dusík resigned on Thursday over plans to modernise the controversial Prunéřov coal-fired power plant in north-west Bohemia. Mr Dusík said he’d…
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