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Gothic winter tale

Winter came early this year, with piles of snow yet again taking Bohemia and Moravia by surprise. The guidebook Lonely Planet has even placed Prague’s Christmas market in…
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Opposition deal in Prague could cast a long shadow

Prague Civic Democrat leader Bohuslav Svoboda was elected mayor of Prague on Tuesday in one of the stormiest sessions City Hall has ever witnessed. Hundreds of protesters…
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Jiří Pehe pens first political biography of post-89 heavyweight Václav Klaus

President Václav Klaus has been a dominant figure on the Czech political scene ever since the early 1990s. The founder of the Civic Democrats was finance minister and…
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Christian Democrats elect new leader in revival bid

One of the oldest Czech political parties, the Christian Democrats, is undergoing a radical makeover. After taking severe beating in this year’s local and general…
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Senate results should spark reflection from government parties, force negotiations with Social Democrats: political analyst Jiří Pehe

Political analyst Jiří Pehe says the Senate election results represent a backlash against the centre-right coalition government’s reforms. He expects the outcome to make…
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New book critical of Klaus years

Well-known political analyst Jiří Pehe – a former advisor to Václav Havel – has launched a new book analyzing the career of Václav Klaus as finance minister, prime…
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Social Democrats triumph in Senate elections The opposition Social Democrats have triumphed in the Senate elections, winning a majority in the upper house of Parliament…
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New parties under pressure to do well in upcoming local and Senate elections, says analyst Jiří Pehe

Czechs around the country will be going to the polls on Friday and Saturday. Record numbers of candidates are running in elections for municipal councils, with one of the…
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Pre-election campaigning takes aggressive tone towards marginal social groups

One aspect of campaigning for local elections this autumn has been a noticeably aggressive tone against groups on the margins of society. While a right-wing proposal to…
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Analyst: Prague municipal election will be fight between Civic Democrats and TOP 09

Weeks after other political parties announced their candidates for Prague mayor in the upcoming municipal elections, the Civic Democrats have finally made public their own…
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Political pundit’s recipe for election success: less ideological talk and more solutions to concrete problems

In just over a month Czechs will go to the polls to vote in local and senate elections. The vote due to take place on October 15th-16th is expected to be influenced by two…
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Abuse of MPs expenses still plaguing Czech politics

Abuse of MPs expenses is an ongoing problem on the Czech political scene –and occasionally politicians pay a high price for the malpractice. On Thursday, former…
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TOP 09 takes pole position in opinion poll ahead of traditional political giants

Some people may have thought it was a political blip that would soon lose its allure, but a relative newcomer on the Czech political scene, TOP 09, appears to be going…
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Analyst: Incoming coalition might be unstable despite comfortable support in Parliament

The new centre-right coalition government has pledged to implement a series of reforms, reforms that could possibly put its stability to the test. That’s what president…
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Alarm as anti-cronyism party says will replace police chief with ‘one of our own people’

The centre-right government hasn’t even been appointed yet but already trouble seems to be brewing over personnel changes at the head of the Czech police force. Radek John…
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Civic Democrats get a makeover

The weekend conference of the Czech Republic’s largest centre-right party, the Civic Democrats, brought plenty of new faces to the forefront. Many in the press and the…
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Analyst: change of legislation to allow direct presidential elections unlikely

The three parties who are in the process of forming a centre-right government have agreed to try to change the Czech constitution in a way that would allow the president…
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Czech Republic heading for centre-right coalition government

With 99 percent of the vote counted in the country’s general elections it is increasingly clear that voters have turned away from the two big parties, the Civic and Social…
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Topolánek to step down after over seven years as chairman of Civic Democrats

After over seven years in the post, Mirek Topolánek is stepping down as chairman of the Civic Democrats. The announcement comes days after he was forced to quit as…
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Analyst: Topolánek’s failure to resign as party leader likely to cause further problems for Civic Democrats

The Civic Democrats’ Mirek Topolánek has bowed to pressure from within his own party and agreed to step down as election leader two months before the Czechs go to the…
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Small parties seen making an impact in May lower house elections

The deadline has passed for political parties and movements to register for lower house elections at the end of May. More have come forward than last time round four years…
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Civic Democrat chairman causes uproar over remarks about gays, Jews, Church

The chairman of the Civic Democratic Party, Mirek Topolánek, is in hot water over an interview he gave to a gay magazine. It included controversial statements about two…
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Social Democrats generous with promises ahead of May’s general elections

The Social Democrats launched their campaign for May’s general elections with a bang over the weekend. At a conference in Teplice on Saturday, they unveiled an ambitions…
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Legendary Czech broadcaster Ivan Medek remembered

A legendary Czech exile from communism and radio broadcaster has died. Ivan Medek’s voice became a vital link to the outside world after he began broadcasting back to his…
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Czech politicians struggle with the demands of campaigning online

It appears that Czech politicians have discovered the power of the Internet. But while elsewhere the medium has revolutionized campaigning thanks to its interactivity, in…
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