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| Jakub Groszkowski
On 25 May, a group of Czech senators from the areas where possible deposits of shale gas have been discovered announced that they had prepared a bill imposing a ban on the use of the hydraulic fracturing method in the Czech Republic.
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| Jakub Groszkowski
On 22 April, the leaders of the three parties which formed the government coalition decided to put an end to their collaboration. The dissolution of the coalition was preceded by a break-up of the parliamentary club of the smallest of the…
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| Jakub Groszkowski
During the first ten days of April oil supplies from the East to the Czech Republic fell by 31% in comparison with the amount logged by Russia. Transneft, which coordinates exports of Russian oil, announced on 9 April that Russian…
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| Jakub Groszkowski
On 15 March Petr Nečas acknowledged that the Czech Republic would until June refrain from requesting the European Commission to disburse funds allocated as part of the cohesion policy which are spent within the system of operational…
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| Jakub Groszkowski
The Social Democratic party, Smer-SD, won the early parliamentary election in Slovakia on 10 March. With a support level at 44%, which guarantees a majority of seats in parliament, Smer-SD outpaced the ruling centre-right parties.
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| Jakub Groszkowski
The parliamentary election in Slovakia, scheduled for 10 March, is likely to see the government of the left-wing Smer-SD party led by Robert Fico return to power and to seal the disintegration of the centre-right camp.
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| Jakub Groszkowski
The Czech Republic, which on 30 January at the summit of the European Council refused to sign the fiscal compact along with the UK, is becoming more active in the EU. Together with the group of 11, mostly new EU member states, on 17…
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| Jakub Groszkowski
President Václav Klaus announced in his letter to Prime Minister Petr Nečas that he would not sign the intergovernmental agreement introducing a fiscal compact, an instrument for the coordination of the economies of eurozone member…
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| Jakub Groszkowski
Two weeks after the Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov’s visit to Prague, which was aimed at thawing Czech-Ukrainian relations, the Czech government has given political asylum to Oleksandr Tymoshenko, the husband of the former Prime…
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| Jakub Groszkowski
The lower house of the Czech parliament on 14 December adopted the governmental constitution amendment introducing direct presidential elections. This was supported by both coalition and opposition MPs. The decision to relinquish the…