Talking Point The Czech Republic and the rise of social exclusion
“I’m standing in an area of Prague which is quite close to Prague’s main train station – Hlavní Nádraží. This is an area which has been described as one of the worst areas of Prague in terms of poverty and destitution, but looking round, it looks quite normal to me – there’s a hotel here; there’s shops; there’s all sorts of normal things that you’d expect. So the impression one gets is that poverty isn’t really an issue in Prague if this is as bad as it gets. But that doesn’t really paint the full picture. To the north and to the east of the country, you have ghettoisation and it is becoming an increasing problem. So the question I’m asking is just how bad is poverty, ghettoisation and social exclusion? The government has recently set up a taskforce to deal with the issue – and that’s what I’ll be exploring.”
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