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Will Green Party grow in next week's election?

The Czech Republic's political parties are busy with last minute campaigning in the lead-up to next week's parliamentary elections. Green party leaders on Wednesday held a…
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Slovenia's Pomurje - where tradition is stronger than official borders

Slovenia's most north-eastern region is known as Pomurje and it shares borders with Austria, Hungary and Croatia. Around 6% of the population live in this mainly…
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German defence minister backs US missile defence in Central Europe Germany's defense minister says the proposed U.S. anti-missile shield on European territory is in…
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President Klaus: our planet is blue not green

Czech president Vaclav Klaus, an economist by profession, is preparing to do battle with environmentalists. In his latest book called "Our Planet is Blue - Not Green…
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Uranium mining to continue for indefinite period

The Czech government, this week, decided to extend uranium mining for an indefinite term. Production at the Vysocina region's state-owned Dolni Rozinka mine was originally…
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Slovene's are clowning around for public health

Red Nose Day is a day when lots of normal people around the world put on big red noses for charity. In Slovenia Red Noses are being used to raise funds for charity but…
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Change of fortune lands homeless man in psychiatric clinic

It was a story that sells papers – a homeless man finds an abandoned baby boy in a garbage can and saves his life. Miroslav Szamseli, a man who’d been homeless for 15…
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Klaus criticises UN, charges it needs to stay out of economics, science

The outspoken Czech President Václav Klaus raised more than a few eyebrows at the UN General Assembly meeting in New York when he suggested in his address on Saturday what…
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Fighting the slackers

Both the Czech authorities and also many businesses have long expressed concerns that too many employees are taking far too many days off on sick leave. The country has…
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Czech power giant ČEZ lined up for massive environmental windfall

Normally news about massive incentives for energy companies to invest in technology cutting down on polluting greenhouse gases would be applauded as a step in the right…
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Czech Foreign Ministry reviews priority goals and how to achieve them

The Czech Foreign Ministry has launched a far reaching review of what its future priorities should be and how it can achieve them. The review is aimed at adapting policy…
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Helping disadvantaged children to learn English

Under communism Czech society was highly institutionalized and an unhappy legacy from that time is the disproportionately large number of children growing up in children’s…
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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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