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Czech press survey - August 16
16.08.2012 07:50
CeskeNoviny: Prague - With its inability to settle something so much controversial like property return to churches that should have been completed long before the autumn regional and Senate elections, the government gives the opoosition for free a theme for the election campaign, Martin...
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Czech Senate rejects government bill on church restitution
16.08.2012 07:48
CeskeNoviny: Prague - The Czech Senate rejected after a day-long debate the government-sponsored bill on property settlement between the state and churches by the votes of the left today.
The bill was rejected by 43 senators out of 77 present.
Prime Minister Petr Necas (Civic...
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News Czech Republic 15.08.2012
16.08.2012 07:46
CR: Senate to vote on church property restitution
The Czech Senate is on Wednesday set to vote on the controversial church property restitution bill. The upper house, controlled by the opposition Social Democrats and Communists, is likely to reject the bill. The draft legislation, prepared...
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News Czech Republic 14.08.2012
15.08.2012 07:58
CR: Social Watch slams Czech government policy
In its 2012 report on the Czech Republic Social Watch, an international network of citizens’ organizations, has criticized the government’s austerity measures and what it calls unremitting corruption. The report says the centre-right...
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News Czech Republic
14.08.2012 09:49
CR: Prague Pride festival kicks off
The second instalment of the Prague Pride festival of sexual minorities kicked off in the Czech capital on Monday. The festival programme offers some 80 concerts, exhibitions, parties, debates and other events. The festival, held under the auspices of...
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News Czech Republic 10 - 12.08.2012
13.08.2012 08:28
CR: Mountain biker Kulhavý wins Czech Republic’s fourth gold at Olympics
Mountain biker Jaroslav Kulhavý won the gold medal at the London Olympics. The 27-year-old Czech won the Czech Republic’s first ever Olympic medal in Sunday’s mountain bike race in a sprint finish...
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Fischer remains favourite of Czech presidential election - poll
10.08.2012 10:21
CeskeNoviny: Prague - Former prime minister Jan Fischer has the biggest chance of advancing to the second round of the direct presidential election in the Czech Republic, according to an election model conducted by the Median agency in July and released to CTK today.
Fischer would win the...
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Czech press survey - August 9
10.08.2012 10:20
CeskeNoviny: Prague - The project of the junior Czech government TOP 09 with support of Mayors seems to be losing momentum now that the latter have attained the main goal with which they entered the alliance, that is the passing of a law on redistribution of money that gives many more...
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News Czech Republic 09.08.2012
10.08.2012 10:17
CR:Anti-corruption police propose that five be charged in Open Card case
The anti-corruption police have proposed that five people be charged in connection with Prague’s Open Card system who are suspected of having violated the law on several counts, including that they signed disadvantageous...
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Czech TOP 09 head Schwarzenberg says Samkova does not know him
09.08.2012 11:02
CzechPress:
Prague - The Czech government TOP 09 chairman and the party´s presidential candidate, Karel Schwarzenberg, said today he is not bothered with what the party´s other presidential candidate, lawyer Klara Samkova, said about him.
Samkova, who announced...
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