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In this week's Insight Central Europe we look at some of the main stories in the region. The Supreme Court in Vienna has said asylum seekers in Austria must be fed and housed by the state for the full length of their asylum procedure - we find out what this means for refugees in Austria. Staying with that issue, Poland is busy modernising its border crossing facilities but is also trying not to create the impression among its eastern neighbours of becoming part of fortress Europe. Abortion is being hotly debated in Slovakia at the moment; the Christian Democrats have taken the present pro-choice law to the constitutional court in an effort to have it overturned. We also have the story of Viktor Ullmann, a composer who wrote an opera while interned at the Czech Terezin concentration camp before meeting his death at Auschwitz. And a Hungarian artist who emigrated to Austria before WW2 has returned with an usual gift for Budapest - a statue of Shakespeare.
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Press ReviewPress Review
All of the front pages of the Czech dailies today report on the earthquake
in south-eastern Turkey, and some of them also focus on American president
George Bush's declaration that the war in Iraq is over. While these are
the main international stories, the domestic reports that dominate the
Czech newspapers today look at the May Day commemorations and a dispute
within the coalition government over a proposed law on rent regulation.
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Current Affairs"Welcome to the Community" - government launches EU Yes campaign
A Greek café owner - dubbed into Czech - explains to TV viewers how EU
membership has helped his country since joining the European Union. The
30-second TV ad is one of three being aired as part of the Czech
government's EU referendum campaign, which began in earnest on May 1st. At
the same time billboards are going up across the country featuring a
Portuguese fisherman, a Spanish bus driver and an Austrian taxi driver,
accompanied by the phrase "Welcome to the Community." The ad
campaign is certainly slick and professional, but will it work? We spoke
to the person in charge of it, the Foreign Ministry's Jana Adamcova.
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Current AffairsHoon, Tvrdik discuss cooperation in Iraq and possible air-defence pact
The British Secretary of State for Defence, Geoff Hoon, visited the Czech
Republic earlier this week. During his brief stay Mr Hoon met President
Vaclav Klaus, Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla and Foreign Minister Cyril
Svoboda. Secretary Hoon also met his Czech counterpart, Defence Minister
Jaroslav Tvrdik, to discuss further Czech involvement in Iraq but also a
possible British-Czech air-defence pact.
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