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National parks re-drawing their conservation zones under close scrutiny from locals

National parks in the Czech Republic are re-drawing their conservation zones for the next 15 years. And once again the process of finding a balance between conservation…
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Czech government approves legislation banning paramilitary groups

The government has approved new legislation which would ban armed paramilitaries and vigilante groups pursuing a religious, nationalist or similar agenda. Those who break…
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Press Review

Campaigning for June's elections absolutely dominates the daily newspapers today. But of course, the Olympics make the main headlines in Czech daily newspapers today. Most…
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News of Radio Prague

Upper Austrian anti-nuclear activists plan another demonstration Anti-nuclear activists in Upper Austria have announced that they plan to hold another demonstration in…
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News of Radio Prague

Czechs to consider not putting Temelin in operation Czech foreign minister Jan Kavan and Austrian environment minister Wilhelm Molterer held talks on the controversial…
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News Saturday, JUNE 13th, 1998

And now the news in more detail. About two or three cubic metres of low-active cooling medium leaked out of the Dukovany nuclear power station on Friday morning, the CTK…
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News Sunday, MARCH 22nd, 1998

Those are the headlines, I'm Ray Furlong, and now the news in more detail. The Social Democrat leader, Milos Zeman, has indirectly accused the Freedom Union of being…
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Why are Czech students less happy to be back in school than their global peers?

Most children in the Czech Republic returned to school on Monday following the summer break. Compared to their peers worldwide, however, fewer look forward to being back…
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Prague plans ban on coal heating using outmoded stoves and boilers

From November 2020 the Prague authorities are planning to ban the burning of coal, briquettes and coke in old stoves and boilers with a view to improving the capital’s…
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Impact of EU emissions cut target on Czech carmakers ‘mitigated’ by incentives

EU lawmakers have hammered out a deal to cut vehicle emissions 35 percent by 2030 in a bid to fight climate change and pollution. The Czech Republic, whose auto industry…
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Czech PM defiant in face of growing opposition

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš remains defiant in the midst of a storm following the leaking of a preliminary EU audit which states that he has a conflict of interests…
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Study: Climate change replaces terror attacks as Czechs’ biggest fear

Czechs are increasingly concerned about threats related to climate change, suggests a freshly published survey. According to the study by the Median agency, they are…
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Cassini spacecraft carries measuring instrument co-designed by Czech scientist

Last Friday's successful touchdown of the Huygens probe on Saturn's moon Titan made world headlines. The European-built probe was to explore conditions on Titan which are…
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Czech government mulls new anti-terror law in wake of Madrid bombings

Countries across the region have been reviewing their security procedures in the wake of the Madrid attacks, and some, which don't have specific anti-terrorism laws, are…
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Europe's future is debated in Slovakia.

Experts and human rights advocates have been gathering in Slovakia this week to consider Europe's future - and what the continent's next objective might be, after the…
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Jewish cemeteries attacked by vandals in Slovakia

In Slovakia, the recent vandalism of a Jewish cemetery in the east of the country has stirred anger among members of its tiny Jewish community. Since October, two other…
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News of Radio Prague

Czech delegation returns to Prague after EU constitution summit collapses Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla, Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda and other senior officials have…
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Why are Czech courts so slow?

A meeting at the Prague Municipal court took place on Tuesday to thrash out the ongoing issue in the Czech Republic, "Why are the courts so slow?" Existing efforts to…
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Day of mourning for murdered teacher

Schools across the country have held a day of mourning for the teacher who was stabbed to death by one of his own students in the east Bohemian town of Svitavy last week…
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Varied group of young people discuss cultural heritage, tolerance at unusual 'camp'

Cultural heritage and tolerance: those were the issues discussed by a varied group of 32 young people, who have just spent two weeks at a disused mill in a village called…
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Milovice commemorates departure of Red Army

As you may have heard in a Spotlight programme that I did a couple of weeks back, the North Bohemian town of Milovice is this year commemorating 10 years since the…
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Press Review

Are taxes good for your health? Is your favourite supermarket ripping you off? And will Temelin go off with a bang? These are the questions posed by some of today's papers…
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Judge defies Supreme Court and sets suspected race attackers free

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Constitutional changes rejected

A joint effort by the two strongest political parties to push through controversial constitutional amendments, which would have curbed the President's powers and increase…
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Conference urges racial tolerance in Czech Republic

A conference entitled Tolerance, Respect and Human Rights 2001 got underway in Prague on Thursday. Peter Smith was at the opening and is here to tell us more.
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