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Current AffairsDisenchanted Czechs say country not going in the right direction
The results of an October survey carried out by the STEM polling agency
indicate people’s growing pessimism regarding the future. Half of those
polled said the country was not going in the right direction and worried
about what the coming year would bring. Radio Prague asked the agency’s
director Jan Hartl what was behind the growing public dissatisfaction with
the present state of affairs. More
Current AffairsPrague Pride gay festival begins amidst political controversy
The five-day Prague Pride gay festival kicked off on Wednesday amidst
heated political controversy. The country’s top political figures,
including President Václav Klaus and Prime Minister Petr Nečas have
voiced their opinions on the event. Organizers say the media attention will
swell the ranks of participants – both supporters and opponents – of
Saturday’s gay parade through the city centre. More
Current AffairsPublic Affairs seeks way ahead after electoral defeat
As the dust settles on the weekend’s local and Senate elections, one
loser stands out: the smallest party in the coalition government, Public
Affairs. Just five months after making a breakthrough in national
elections, Public Affairs appears to have suffered an equally dramatic
setback. We look at the party’s election debacle and prospects. More
Current Affairs“Havel’s children” likely to shun lower house elections
If the imminent Czech lower house elections have failed to enthuse a large
part of the population so far then that appears doubly true for many young
people. Figures suggest they could stay away from the polls in droves. And
part of the blame seems to lie with the political parties themselves.
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Current AffairsCzech lower house election campaign goes into final straight after slow, negative start
Czechs go to the polls in just under four weeks for elections to the lower
house of parliament. As the deadline approaches, the two main parties have
unveiled their final campaign plans. We assess the battle so far and the
prospects ahead of the vote.
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One on OneCommunist deputy chair Josef Skála: reforming the regime was the ambition of my generation
Twenty years after the fall of Czechoslovakia’s communist regime, the
Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia has retained both its communist
label and much of its ideology. In this edition of One on One, our guest is
Josef Skála, who recently became one of the party’s deputy leaders. He
shares his views on the totalitarian regime of the past and the party’s
prospects in the future.
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Current AffairsInterim cabinet enjoying high public support midway through its term
In last month’s opinion poll the interim government of Jan Fischer
received unusually positive feedback from the public compared to previous
cabinets. Carried out by the STEM polling agency just four months after the
cabinet was appointed, the poll suggests that 44 percent of Czechs trust
the government, with the prime minister himself enjoying as much as 83
percent of public support. Radio Prague spoke to the head of STEM, Jan
Hartl, and asked him first what was behind those figures.
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Current AffairsTurnout takes central place in European elections
Europeans started voting Thursday in elections to the European Parliament
with citizens in Britain and the Netherlands leading the way in the
27-country poll. Czechs will vote over the weekend with one of the main
questions how far the country’s turbulent campaign will have helped
mobilise voters. More
Current AffairsCzech MPS expenses under scrutiny after British scandal
The British scandal over MPs imaginative expense payments has focused
attention on how Czech lawmakers are compensated and their accounts
controlled. The comparison shows many similarities between the two systems
with similar abuse difficult to rule out.
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Talking PointCommunist era plagues history teachers
The communist regime in Czechoslovakia crumbled in 1989, and 20 years on, a
caustic debate still smoulders over how to interpret it – not among the
staunch mindsets of those who enforced the regime and those who suffered
through it – but rather for the nation’s grade school students, none of
whom were alive yet when the Berlin wall came down.
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