http://radio.cz/en Latest articles on 'Foreigners and the Czech Republic' - Information relating to foreign residents in the Czech Republic; practical advice and important links en Sat, 19 May 2012 02:01:00 +0200 Sat, 19 May 2012 02:01:00 +0200 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Radio Prague CMS 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Radio Broadcasting cr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas) webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) http://radio.cz/en/article/147982 In the past 20 years, Prague has attracted a number of foreign professionals, and many of them settle here permanently. With the Czech capital growing more international, relationships between locals and foreigners have also become more common. In this edition of Czech Life, we speak to some of those intercultural couples about their experiences and their everyday relationship life. Sat, 19 May 2012 02:01:00 +0200 urn:uuid:6049b51c-5843-595a-a924-8de84047340d http://radio.cz/en/article/147220 After years of growth, the real estate market in the Czech capital has seen a slow but steady decline, with decreasing prices and many more new listings having turned Prague property into a buyer’s market. One factor behind the change is waning interest from foreigners to invest into real estate in the Czech capital. However, some parts of Prague have become more attractive for Czechs and foreigners alike, while others remain popular primarily with foreign clients. Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:24:15 +0200 urn:uuid:2613ce27-4fbd-5448-98bc-8afc7312bad4 http://radio.cz/en/article/146575 In the past 20 years, the number of foreigners living in the Czech Republic has increased dramatically as a consequence of the opening of the Iron Curtain. Still, the country is far from being as diverse as most other European nations, for example France or Germany, and the vast majority of the Czech population remains Caucasian. During communism, the few black people who lived here stuck out like a sore thumb. Nowadays, their number has of course increased, but the size of the black community is still quite small. Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:01:00 +0100 urn:uuid:2c65b7ae-4d6b-5dac-b9f4-9a2ecf2445d5 http://radio.cz/en/article/146375 A video spot made by the Association for Integration and Migration highlights the problems of foreign nationals working as domestic service providers – cleaners, maids and nannies. Approximately 27 thousand women from former Soviet bloc countries and Asia are currently employed in menial positions in Czech households. Their poor grasp of the language and scant knowledge of their rights –as well as fear of deportation -make them easy targets of exploitation and maltreatment. Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:38:49 +0100 urn:uuid:dea10809-93a7-5ba3-a021-6a43bf263528 http://radio.cz/en/article/146129 Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper has just published a list of the top twenty places for young people to emigrate, and the Czech capital Prague came in fourth. "Beautiful and only a short flight away from Britain, Prague offers all the stability of Europe with not requiring a new language, and it has the best beer in the world," that's according to the Telegraph at least. So is Prague as an expat destination all it's cracked up to be? Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:53:55 +0100 urn:uuid:f880421e-8ad9-5459-a1d5-3afa541c0a3a http://radio.cz/en/article/144350 One of the many Christmas masses celebrated over the past weekend was a mass for the Vietnamese community celebrated by Prague Archbishop Dominik Duka in Prague’s Žižkov district. It was dedicated to the Feast of the Holy Family and attended by over a thousand Vietnamese who have embraced the Christian faith. Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:56:25 +0100 urn:uuid:fbc48145-b72b-5602-981c-0e8c1431db42 http://radio.cz/en/article/142966 In the past 20 years, Prague has attracted a number of foreign professionals, and many of them settle here permanently. With the Czech capital growing more international, relationships between locals and foreigners have also become more common. In this edition of Czech Life, we speak to some of those intercultural couples about their experiences and their everyday relationship life. Sat, 05 Nov 2011 02:01:00 +0100 urn:uuid:0aaba60e-416e-588e-8b74-1bb3f54efbfe http://radio.cz/en/article/141853 Prague’s sizeable Vietnamese community recently held its first ever day of Vietnamese culture, an open event in the centre of town which drew a mixed crowd of Vietnamese and Czechs. What has been a rather closed society appears to be slowly opening up to outsiders, as Czech-born Vietnamese become increasingly confident about their identity and Czechs learn there is more to Vietnamese people than an army of convenience store proprietors. Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:23:49 +0200 urn:uuid:2e8dc1f0-881a-5844-b409-fe140d6de86d http://radio.cz/en/article/141080 Every year Czech clinics perform hundreds of life-saving organ transplants. Unfortunately many seriously ill patients wait in vain for the call to say that a suitable donor has been found. In an effort to increase the number of donors the Czech Health Ministry is now drafting an amendment to the law which would allow foreigners to become organ donors as well. Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:57:20 +0200 urn:uuid:0dd59c78-6afb-52b5-b7fe-3a32b6b9ab05 http://radio.cz/en/article/135221 In this week’s Business News: falling fortunes for Sazka, foreign labour leaves Czech market, threats and promises in ad revenue battle, insurance payouts double in 2010, and Czech company lines up British army contract. Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0100 urn:uuid:de34b8ee-a07d-5062-b90c-7d74a6fd0533 http://radio.cz/en/article/134617 In this edition of One on One, Jan Richter’s guest is the Brazilian-born journalist Fabiano Golgo. When he first came to Prague nearly 15 years ago, he came as a cultural anthropologist to study the Czech people, a subject that never ceases to amaze him. Since his arrival, however, Fabiano Golgo has earned quite a reputation on the Czech media scene. Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:01:20 +0100 urn:uuid:d40aeed7-359a-5638-b8c6-2cadb6226598 http://radio.cz/en/article/134412 In this week’s One on One we talk to Brian Kenety, the editor of the English language edition of a newly launched website which is seeking to carve out a niche in the field of politics and business news. The new kid on the local media block made its official debut at the start of the month. Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:06:40 +0100 urn:uuid:60367ab3-f352-564c-a123-13ad7bf8a71c http://radio.cz/en/article/133993 Rachel Kanarowski has the kind of job that must make her the envy of her peers. At only 30, she is the editor-in-chief of the Czech version of InStyle, a major international women’s magazine. At the magazine’s offices, we discussed shopping in Prague and the Czech take on style. But first Kanarowski described the unlikely sounding way in which the opportunity to enter the business arose, and how she made the most of that chance. Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:33:21 +0100 urn:uuid:5b8250fb-3a92-5674-b5e5-dc62fa5c5cd1 http://radio.cz/en/article/133883 There is nothing that foreigners in the Czech Republic dread more than a trip to the foreign police. The horror stories are endless – long lines, no English, unpleasant officials and a general lack of efficiency. On Thursday morning an NGO in support of the rights of migrants organized a protest event outside one of Prague’s foreign police offices to highlight the degrading conditions foreign nationals are subjected to in order to be able to live and work in the Czech Republic. Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:43:55 +0100 urn:uuid:ea5eead5-6f89-50f4-94a1-6444dbcb9990 http://radio.cz/en/article/133428 In response to directives from the European Commission, the lower house of Parliament has passed new legislation regarding the employment and residence of foreigners in the Czech Republic. Foreigners will be required to have sufficient health insurance and their residency permits will have to have biometric information, such as fingerprints. Also, foreigners facing deportation will be able to request an asylum hearing. To find out more about the new bill and what it will mean for foreigners in the Czech Republic, Radio Prague spoke to Lucie Sládková who heads the International Organisation for Migration. Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:07:03 +0100 urn:uuid:5fe3251a-46ff-58a4-89b7-52e9fab01511 http://radio.cz/en/article/132931 The English journalist and writer Misha Glenny is perhaps best known for his work covering the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the hit 2008 book McMafia. His first book The Rebirth of History, published in 1990, focused on the post-communist political landscape of Eastern Europe, including Czechoslovakia, a country with which he had a close association. Indeed, Glenny had studied Czech in Prague, and remembers with fondness his time here in the early ‘80s. When we spoke recently at the close of the Forum 2000 conference in the city, he recalled his very first visit, towards the end of 1980. Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:39:38 +0200 urn:uuid:de8cb55f-b08b-5ed3-aa0b-d73969e2aa5c http://radio.cz/en/article/131429 In the early 1990s, Prague was in the spotlight of international media with scores of foreign correspondents reporting on developments in free Czechoslovakia. Since then, the Czech Republic has become a member of the EU and NATO, and has lost much of its attraction for foreign journalists. One of the few foreign correspondents based in Prague today is Dan Bilefsky, who covers the region of central and Eastern Europe for the International Herald Tribune and the New York Times. When we met, I asked Dan Bilefsky why he was based in Prague. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:33:32 +0200 urn:uuid:a3a9c844-828e-5cb7-940f-0e70b1d3e7ce http://radio.cz/en/article/130956 Some people say that Czechs are unfriendly. Obviously, such people are simply not in the right place at the right time. Try any central Prague metro exit or the top of Wenceslaus Square for example, where I have been stopped by the friendliest Czechs imaginable every day for the last two months now, sometimes even several times a day, sometimes several times within five minutes. They want to talk to me about all kinds of things. Sun, 22 Aug 2010 02:01:00 +0200 urn:uuid:1023cfc8-961d-5f86-8d61-f04bcf1a7609 http://radio.cz/en/article/130890 The Czech government has moved to crack down on foreign workers who overstay their welcome in the country. At the same time it has set up a new system for attracting qualified foreign workers. Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:01:20 +0200 urn:uuid:27cd4380-9e91-58cf-8169-230ce29b1c90 http://radio.cz/en/article/130346 In this week’s Business News: a big win for Budweiser - the Czech one, that is; the new labour minister wants to toughen up on non-EU workers; the state forestry company sees big profits for the first half of 2010; ČEZ finally wants done with its Chvaletice power plant; and the antimonopoly office owes interest to Shell for imposing illegitimate fines. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0200 urn:uuid:7fa0c1f7-1209-56a2-8b0c-841f652a9c80