Czech Republic

CSSD supports planned strike of Prague public transport staff

Prague - The Czech Social Democrats (CSSD) today voiced support for a strike planned by the Prague public transport company (DPP) staff and criticised as irresponsible the City Hall's approach that they say leads to no...

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The new underclass (Law is Cool)

Who haven’t heard of immigration queue jumpers? The current federal government used this term when it shut down visa-free travel from the Czech Republic and Mexico. Federal officials blamed queue jumping refugee claimants....

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Officer who brutalized 14-year-old Romani boy back to work with Brno police

Brno, 7.11.2009, 23:11, (ROMEA) - Former Brno police officer Pavel Trenz, who was sentenced to two years in prison in 2007 for extortion and abusing the powers of a public official, is back at work with the Brno police force,...

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Heads Up: In Prague, Toasts to the Velvet Revolution

The Velvet Revolution of 1989 will be re-enacted in Prague this month. On Nov. 17, 20 years to the day since the start of the Velvet Revolution, when the police beat hundreds of protesting university students on Narodni Street,...

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Czech premier turns down nomination for EU executive

Prague - Caretaker Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer on Saturday indirectly turned down an offer by two major Czech political parties to become the Czech Republic's nominee for the European Commission. The premier confirmed that...

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1989 memories leave Czechs confused | Michael Simmons

The ambivalence in the Czech Republic today is a far cry from the unanimity and euphoria of the days of the Velvet Revolution Twenty years on, in Prague, the de facto capital of central Europe, there is no shortage of the...

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Our EU partners failed in the UN

I would like to congratulate the Government and the Department of Foreign Affairs for voting yes on the resolution to adopt the Goldstone report yesterday at the UN General Assembly. Ireland's yes vote to adopt key...

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The rail thread that links Europe

In the week the Lisbon Treaty was finally ratified, the BBC's Johnny Dymond travelled the continent's railways to glean a sense of its past and future. Empty carriages In Budapest, the eastern railway station is a monument to...

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Klaus may want Czech Republic to renew sovereignty by leaving EU

One of Czech President Vaclav Klaus's goals may be to have the Czech Republic regain its lost sovereignty, for example by its departure from the EU, Petr Hajek, deputy head of the Presidential Office, said on Prima TV Wednesday.

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Czech Director Krejca Dies At 87

Well Known Czech Theater Director Otomar Krejca Dies At 87 (AP) PRAGUE (AP) - Otomar Krejca, a renowned theater director in the Czech Republic, has died at the age of 87. Prague's National Theater says Krejca died Friday in...

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