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Government clears restructuring route for struggling Czech Airlines

The Czech government has cleared far reaching plans for Czech Airlines to face the future. The state-owned carrier will be relieved of its debt burden but at the price of…
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Czech government approves package of measures to attack corruption scourge

The Czech Republic last year slipped down the rankings of more or less corruption free countries. Politicians’ failure to tackle what it almost universally recognised as a…
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New research center maps connection between cancer and environmental pollution

Medical statistics indicate that the Czech Republic’s Plzeň region, in western Bohemia, has the highest rate of colon and kidney cancer in the world. A new research center…
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Experimental stage to become National Theatre’s newest venue in 2010

If you have ever seen the Czech National Theatre then surely you have noticed the modernistic glass cube lodged between it and an 18th century convent. That is the Nová…
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Increasing number of Czechs working past retirement age

Czechs seem increasingly unwilling to put their feet up when they reach retirement age. In fact, the percentage of Czechs who receive a pension and keep working is among…
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Czech industry ministry sparks uproar with long term power plans

The Czech Ministry of Industry has just made public its plans for the country’s energy policy over the next four decades. They include more nuclear power, the breaching of…
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Hopes of new climate pact dashed in Copenhagen

As the Copenhagen climate talks draw to a close, hopes have dimmed of reaching any significant agreement that could form the basis of an eventually legally binding climate…
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Jiří Dienstbier – left-wing candidate with clean record and strong social values

A rising star of Czech left-wing politics, Social Democrat Senator Jiří Dienstbier promises to be a credible and consistent president. He presents himself as a politician…
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Will Czechs go organic?

Organic foodstuffs are expected to make a big breakthrough onto the Czech market in the next five years. In 2005, Czechs spent a total of 350 million crowns ($15.9 million…
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Will Czechs go organic?

Organic foodstuffs are expected to make a big breakthrough onto the Czech market in the next five years. In 2005, Czechs spent a total of 350 million crowns ($15.9 million…
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Major clean-up to get underway at Czech Republic's Spolana plant

The Spolana chemical plant just north of Prague has become synonymous with environmental disaster here in the Czech Republic, with a number of high-profile leaks over the…
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Czech Foreign Minister says EU should demand apology for Moslem violence The Czech Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda wants the EU to demand an apology from Lebanon and Syria…
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Slovakia meets NATO request to re-deploy Afghanistan troops The Slovak government has agreed to move its troops, stationed in Afghanistan, from Kabul to the southern city…
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Government approves public finance reform bill

The coalition government of Mirek Topolanek on Wednesday unanimously approved the first stage of broad public finance reforms. The plan brings changes to the tax and…
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Theatre helping Prague's homeless get back on their feet

Under communism it was practically impossible to be homeless in this country. Since the 1989 revolution that has changed dramatically, with one survey finding there were…
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Czech government approves 2015 budget draft

Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka’s centre-left cabinet on Monday unanimously approved the draft of the 2015 state budget. The proposal envisages a deficit of 100 billion…
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Czech women to appeal European court home births verdict

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against two Czech women seeking to challenge national legislation effectively banning home births with midwives serving as…
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Foreign ambassadors say Czech Republic is not doing enough against corruption

Ambassadors of five countries, including the US, Great Britain and South Korea, have appealed to the Czech Republic to step up its fight against corruption. The appeal was…
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Czech Coal joins suitors for Vattenfall German power assets

A third Czech power company has boosted the ranks of potential bidders for German power assets of Swedish energy company Vattenfall. In fact, Czech companies and joint…
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Czech steelmakers fear flood of Chinese imports

China’s relative economic downturn means that a lot of its low cost steel is being exported around the world with Europe one of the main target markets. And already…
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EPH seen as favourite for major portfolio of brown coal energy assets in Germany

Czech energy group EPH teamed up with PPF Investments, the vehicle of the Czech Republic’s richest man, Petr Kellner, is said to be on the verge of another major…
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Václav Havel Human Rights Prize 2015 awarded to Russian activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva

The third Václav Havel Human Rights Prize, which honours outstanding civil society action in defence of human rights, has been awarded to veteran Russian human rights…
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Czechs aiming for fourth Fed Cup title in five years in front of home fans

The Czech Republic’s women’s tennis team are looking to end the season on a high in Prague this weekend when Petra Kvitová and Co. hope to lift their fourth Fed Cup title…
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Czech lawmakers reject proposal to enable unmarried women to undergo artificial fertilization

The Czech lower house has rejected a proposed amendment to the law that would have enabled unmarried women to undergo artificial fertilization using the sperm of an…
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Environmentalist: Beijing-like levels are thing of past but more must still be done to combat smog

A smog alert has been declared in Prague for the second time this year and many other parts of the Czech Republic have also suffered heavy and sustained air pollution in…
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