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05-12-2011 15:41 | Pavla Horáková

Illustrative photo Since Saturday, a group of Czech military doctors have been helping out in hospitals in neighbouring Slovakia where hundreds of doctors walked out over low wages. Last Wednesday the resignations of 1,200 doctors (of an overall 7,000) came into force, leaving four of the country’s hospitals in critical condition and another sixteen in jeopardy. Even though the Slovak government has now agreed to meet doctors’ demands, the Czech team is staying on until conditions return to normal. More

Czech HistoryThe Czech invasion of ‘Wilson City’

22-11-2011 16:59 | Christian Falvey

Pressburg/Bratislava Welcome to Wilsonstadt, an independent Central European city of 400,000 Germans and Hungarians, and a few Slovaks thrown in for good measure. Named after US President Woodrow Wilson in 1919, after successfully avoiding annexation by Czechoslovakia - and an impossible number of other would-be conquests - it's a prosperous, provincial town on the Danube, though plagued by poor relations with its neighbors. More

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