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Current AffairsConstitutional Court defies EU with ruling on Czech-Slovak pensions
The Constitutional Court on Tuesday made a landmark ruling regarding the
difference in pensions between the Czech and Slovak Republic. Cases exist
where Czechs who worked in the other half of Czechoslovakia now receive the
lower pension rate of the Slovak Republic. According to the new decision of
the court, such citizens never worked in a foreign country and thus are
entitled to compensatory payments to raise their pensions to Czech
standards. Among the chaos this creates for the Social Affairs Ministry now
is that fact that the ruling directly contradicts the European Court of
Justice. More
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