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Czech President Vaclav Klaus has vetoed a new law on VAT, a move that may
complicate Czech trade with fellow EU members after May 1st. The World
Bank has encouraged EU newcomers joining next month to adopt more economic
reforms. The Czech National Bank has changed its strategy of managing
foreign exchange reserves. The inflation rate has quickened to its fastest
annual pace in nearly two years.
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MagazineMagazine
When did you last see your wife? A Czech man was married for a whole year
without being aware of it. A jubilee car: the one millionth Fabia RS
produced by the auto maker Skoda is bound for Great Britain. How many
bureaucrats does the Czech Republic actually have? Politicians are placing
bets on that but nobody really seems to know. Find out more in Magazine
with Daniela Lazarova.
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Current AffairsAre ghettos of the poor to arise in north Bohemia?
The number of poor people and rent dodgers has been growing rapidly in some
areas in north Bohemia. The reason - availability of extremely cheap
housing. Property owners from around the country have found a cheap and
simple way of getting rid of problematic tenants. At the same time, it is
a solution for poor families who can no longer afford to pay high rents in
Prague and other big cities. Local authorities have expressed concern
about the development and are seeking ways to fight it.
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Business NewsSkoda Auto declared top Czech company
Czech car maker Skoda Auto in Mlada Boleslav has been announced as the
winner of the Top 100 most admired Czech companies today, ahead of the
Pilsner Urquell brewery and power utility CEZ. Skoda is one of the most
successful Czech companies and by far the biggest Czech exporter. It
accounts for 10 percent of the total Czech exports, selling 80 percent of
its production on markets in more than 70 countries. Skoda's market share
in the Czech Republic is about 50 percent.
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Current AffairsCzech real estate market finally stabilising
Since the Velvet Revolution the Czech real estate market has experienced
enormous development. Now experts claim that all major changes are over
and prices of new apartments should stay stable. Even Czech accession to
the European Union, they say, should not bring anything new.
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MailboxMailbox
In this edition of Mailbox: The Postal Museum, Zelary, CzechInvest and
Czech Trade. Listeners quoted: Vincento Pareli, Jim Kernsey, Ben Clanis
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Letter from PragueOf foreigners and perception of reality
So many times in the Letter from Prague, my foreign colleagues have
expressed their views of differences, big and small, between what they had
been used to before moving to Prague and the Czech reality. Different
aspects of life in the Czech Republic seem to never cease taking
foreigners by surprise - from the cuisine to city transport to mail
delivery. But there is a huge difference in the perception of the gravity
of different issues in this country, even in foreigners who have been here
for a substantial period of time. Something a Czech may take for a trifle,
a foreigner would say: "Hey, that's such an interesting aspect."
It isn't my dear, believe me.
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Press ReviewPress Review
Some of the attention grabbing stories on today's front pages are: the
first official photograph of the latest Skoda model Octavia, news that
senator Vladimir Zelezny, the controversial former media mogul, is running
for elections to the European Parliament and the President's sudden desire
to move house in the wake of a revelation that the presidential villa
-located in a prestigious Prague district - was confiscated from a German
family under the post war Benes decrees.
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WitnessAlistair Beattie and the wrong kind of Skoda
In 1967 the young Scottish music student, Alistair Beattie, won a British
Council scholarship to spend two years studying at the Academy of Musical
Arts in Prague. It proved quite an adventure, as he lived through all the
hopes of the Prague Spring and the bitter disappointment that followed the
Soviet-led invasion. Alistair Beattie was recently in Prague again,
playing the viola in the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. While he was
here he told Radio Prague about his very first experience of
Czechoslovakia thirty-six years ago.
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Press ReviewPress Review
Among the stories making the front pages in the Czech dailies today are the
funeral of the much-respected Pavel Tigrid, the unveiling of the new Skoda
car, the Roomster, and the football fever which has gripped the country
ahead of Wednesday night's big game against the Netherlands.
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