The Czech Ministry of Industry has just made public its plans for the country’s energy policy over the next four decades.

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Czech industry ministry sparks uproar with long term power plans

The Czech poet, playwright and translator Ludvík Kundera was awarded this year’s Jaroslav Seifert prize on Monday recognising his life’s work and contribution to literature.

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Ludvík Kundera awarded Seifert prize

The Czech prime minister was in Brussels on Tuesday for talks on his country’s stalled ratification of the EU’s Lisbon treaty. The European Commission president warned him against “artificial obstacles”, though it remains hard to see a way around the latest obstacle thrown up by the Czech president. Meanwhile, the Constitutional Court has announced a public hearing on Lisbon in two weeks’ time.

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Barroso warns Fischer against “artificial obstacles” to Lisbon ratification, though satisfying latest Klaus demand could be tall order

How are countries of central and Eastern Europe coping with their communist legacies?

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Twenty years after: central and eastern Europe coping with communist legacy

A wide scale poll has revealed that most Czechs have witnessed corruption. The survey results come hard on the heels of moves by corruption watchdogs to push the current caretaker government into taking action. In particular, they want a clampdown on corruption in the public sphere.

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Survey spotlights high level of corruption in Czech society

If the Czech Constitutional Court finds that the EU’s Lisbon treaty is in line with Czech law, the country’s president, Václav Klaus, would have to sign ratification, bringing the document into effect for the whole of Europe.

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This week Czech Books met with the writer, feminist and environmental campaigner Eva Hauserová to talk about her novel Cvokyně – or Madwoman – before she left Prague to present it in libraries throughout the country as part of national Book Week.

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Eva Hauserová – The Time Travelling Writer

The Czech Republic has its first blind football team, but – they have no one to play against.

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Magazine 10.10.2009

Eurosceptic president Václav Klaus on Thursday threw another spanner in the works of the Lisbon treaty. During a telephone conversation with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, whose country currently presides over the EU, the Czech president said that he would only sign the Lisbon treaty on two conditions – if the Czech Constitutional Court rejected a legal challenge to it and if the EU was prepared to add a footnote to the treaty pertaining to the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.

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Czech president throws another spanner in the works of the Lisbon treaty

The Transport Ministry has announced extensive plans to overhaul more than 160 kilometres of what is often considered to be the country’s worst highway: the highly-used D1 thoroughfare from Prague to Brno. For years the D1 has been plagued by aging surfaces, damaged sections, and complicated reconstruction – often a nightmare for drivers. But, transport officials hope, that could soon change.

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Ill-reputed D1 highway to see unprecedented reconstruction over 10 years