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Alexandr Tomsky - publisher, journalist, politician: Part 2

In yesterday's programme, the journalist and publisher Alexandr Tomsky recalled his early life and the decades he spent as a rather reluctant exile in London. Now, in the…
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Daily news summary

Petříček: Free movement between Czech Republic and Austria from mid-June The foreign ministers of the Czech Republic and Austria have agreed to allow free movement of…
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Consensus still far away, one year into the European Union

It has been now one year since the Czech Republic joined the European Union. Radio Prague's Fahima Khail talks to Vaclav Havel and other politicians to assess where the…
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Does Canada and the Czech Republic have more to learn from each other than hockey?

The largest ever Canadian delegation visited Prague last Friday, making their way through all ten countries set to join the European Union next year. A group of Senior…
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Business News

Czech producer prices have grown again in December. The government is likely to ask coal mine bidders to increase offers. Czech officials put pressure on Boeing over Aero…
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Magazine

Most of us are freezing cold here in Central Europe but some Czechs are looking forward to a New Years' dip in the Vltava river, the Czech and Slovak prime ministers race…
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Business News

The Ministry of Finance has revised its macroeconomic forecast. The Czech parliament has overturned a presidential veto of a new law on Value Added Tax. The Czech…
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Jan Kaplicky - a Czech architect turning "future systems" into reality

Today we meet Jan Kaplicky, who is regarded by many as the greatest Czech architect of his generation. Readers in the UK will surely know his amazing Selfridges building…
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European Parliamentary elections a new experience for Czech voters

This week the first ever European Parliamentary elections will take place in the Czech Republic. Czech people will choose their Euro deputies from a wide list of…
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A green light for Czech cyclists

On May 1st, a Czech couple will hit the road and start a three-year journey around the world - on their bikes. Michal Jon and Lucie Kovarikova plan to cover all seven…
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Czechs and books

Until Monday, all bookworms' eyes were on the German city of Frankfurt where the annual Book Fair, the world's largest trade fair for books and multimedia, took place…
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Relief for congested city centre emerging?

Around 700,000 cars pass through the streets of Prague every day and many of them through its historic centre. This fact makes life difficult for the residents and also…
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From the Weeklies

The 'flying coffins' or the 'Dodos' are the most frequent nicknames for the ancient Skoda cars still on the road. And NO, you won't see that many old fuddy-duddies behind…
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Domestic violence in the Czech Republic

Domestic violence does not get much attention in the media yet, as in most countries around the world, it does go on. 16% of Czechs, mostly women, are victims and it takes…
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Taking Valentine’s Day seriously and drinking fresh milk

In this week’s edition of Panorama: it wasn’t only chocolates and roses for couples in love on Valentine’s Day – some opted for a spiritual celebration of the lovers’…
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Magazine

The man who sells animal feed tested on humans! What made the Communist Party buy a cow? And, who is running in the Office Rats Race? Find out more in Magazine with…
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Union of flowers: Czech artists bring splash of colour to Brussels

Flower Union is a project created by a group of young artists, textile designers and graphic designers to represent Czechia during its EU presidency.
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The life of Czech children pre and post Covid

We speak to the head of the Czech branch of UNICEF Pavla Gomba about the life of Czech children =pre and post Covid.
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High-flyer Jakub Hlávka: I don’t get bored easily – I get fascinated by things

US-based Czech academic Jakub Hlávka is an expert on health policy, working on projects focused on the Covid pandemic as well as studying the treatment of Alzheimer’s.
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Gay US ex-Christian pastor on losing everything before finding acceptance, love, and home in Czechia

Don Hall was a successful evangelical Christian minister, preaching to crowds of people all over the southeastern US. But he was deeply unhappy.
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Machonins’ granddaughter Marie Kordovská: I grew up in a “mini Kotva”

Architects Věra Machoninová and Vladimír Machonin designed some of the Czech Republic’s most distinctive modern buildings, including Prague’s Kotva department store and…
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People in Need - 25 years of supporting humanitarian aid and development

It is now twenty-five years since the founding of the Czech charity People in Need, or Člověk v tísni, which operates in several dozen countries around the world providing…
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USK Praha: A women’s basketball club with both Czech and global talent

The USK Praha women’s basketball team and their head coach Natália Hejková are changing the face of the sport as we know it here in Prague.
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News

Controversial tax bill did not pass in the lower house The lower house did not pass the controversial tax bill late on Wednesday, with only 94 MPs voting for the…
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Education minister under fire over EU funding Education Minister Josef Dobeš is under pressure to resign over irregularities in EU-funded projects. Brussels announced a…
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