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Klaus: timing of constitutional challenge "deliberate" ploy to delay elections
On Wednesday the ten most important political figures in the country stood before the TV cameras at Prague Castle and vowed that October’s early elections would go ahead…
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Elections in doubt after shock Constitutional Court announcement
Political leaders have vowed to do everything possible to allow early elections to be held in October, after the Constitutional Court shocked the country by announcing…
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Radio Prague editor-in-chief explains changes to new-look website
It’s the first day of school, autumn is nearly upon us, and as you might have noticed there are changes too on the Radio Prague website. Radio Prague’s Editor-in-Chief…
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Paper claims foreigners could be working as virtual slaves in Czech Republic
Could tens of thousands of foreign migrants be working in almost slave-like conditions in the Czech Republic? That’s the conclusion of an in-depth investigation by the…
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1989 student defamation case still unresolved after eighteen years in court
The wheels of Czech justice are famously slow to turn, with court cases dragging on for what seems like – and often is – years. But how about this one for size: in the…
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Final journey of Romani prince stirs new debate on Czech “xenophobia”
There was a sad end to the story of a Romani “prince” from Romania on Monday when the 17-year-old boy died at Prague’s Vinohrady hospital. The boy – heir to the ‘throne’…
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Topolánek’s Tuscan holiday becomes national cause célèbre
There’s usually at least one big news story that breaks the torpid waters of the so-called “cucumber” or silly season, that time of year when Czech editors and reporters…
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Czechs hand in 6,300 unlicensed weapons in gun amnesty
The peaceable Czechs don’t seem like a nation of trigger-happy gun-lovers, but there are actually 650,000 registered gun-owners in this country, and perhaps as many as…
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Klaus says role of individuals exaggerated in "inevitable" collapse of communism
All this year Czechs are remembering the fall of communism in November 1989, but just what was it exactly? Was it the “overthrow” of communism? Or simply “the collapse”…
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Czechs clarify smoking legislation but total ban still long way off
The Czech Republic clarified – rather than tightened – its smoking legislation on Friday, when the Senate passed an amendment to the law on smoking in public places. The…
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