News Czech Republik
Czechs lose the butter battle to the EU
24.10.2012 07:40
CR: The European Union’s Court of Justice on Thursday banned Czech producers from using a name for a diary product that has been on the market for over thirty years. The court ruled that the popular butter spread or pomazánkové máslo may not have the word butter in its name, since its...
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Embattled PM backtracks on tax-reforms in the wake of election defeat
24.10.2012 07:38
CR: The ruling parties’ humiliating defeat in the weekend regional and first round of senate elections have clearly shaken the government’s resolve to effect painful reforms at any cost and left the prime minister fighting not just for the future of the centre-right government but his own...
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News Czech Republic 15.10.2012 - 23.10.2012
24.10.2012 07:21
CR: Rebel deputies holding their ground over tax hikes
Six rebel Civic Democrat deputies who may bring down the government over controversial tax-hikes are holding their ground. A meeting on Tuesday morning with a special party working group striving to find a compromise solution failed to...
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Honoring a legacy
20.10.2012 21:37
PraguePost: Legendary director Karel Zeman gets a permanent collection in new museum
Just off the Charles Bridge, a museum has opened dedicated to the legacy of the director Karel Zeman, a pioneer in the art of special effects. Zeman's most famous film, 1955's Journey to the Beginning of...
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Czech ex-prime minister’s aide, charged with corruption, released from custody
15.10.2012 10:25
CR: A court in Prague has released from custody a close aide to the Czech Republic’s former prime minister. The man faces charges of attempted fraud related to a dubious 2009 weapons deal. Although the court’s decision has raised eyebrows, there is little doubt the Czech government’s...
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Weary voters go to polls for regional, Senate elections
15.10.2012 10:23
CR: The Czech Republic goes to the polls this weekend, with voters choosing members of the country’s regional assemblies as well as one third of the seats in the upper house, the Senate. Opinion polls suggest the parties of the centre-right government will receive something of a drubbing,...
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Foreign capital reaches post-revolution Czechoslovakia
15.10.2012 10:21
CR: With the fall of communism, it was not long before foreign investors began taking an interest in Czechoslovakia. This ranged from huge industrial multinationals to young college graduates, who arrived in Prague with backpacks in the early 1990s, and happened to spot a business...
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Hated and admired, Brno’s Orloj lays a claim to fame
15.10.2012 10:19
CR: It was meant to be the pride of Brno - the town’s own astronomical clock to rival Prague’s famous Orloj and attract tourists to the Moravian metropolis. Located on the city’s Freedom Square the shiny black six-metre-tall, phallus-shaped clock has attracted praise and insults in equal...
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News Czech Republic 12.10.2012 - 14.10.2012
15.10.2012 10:15
CR: Klaus: Election results clear and comprehensible
The Czech president, Václav Klaus, has described the outcome of regional and Senate elections as clear, unequivocal and comprehensible, and said that everybody should draw their own conclusions from them. The right-of-centre...
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Busines News Czech Republic
12.10.2012 13:28
CR: ČEZ excludes French firm Areva from Temelín tender
The Czech state-owned energy company ČEZ on Friday excluded the French firm Areva from a multi-billion dollar tender to build two new blocks at the Temelín nuclear power plant. Without giving further details, ČEZ said in a press...
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