Kateřina Šafaříková

Respekt - Check the Czechs

In this blog, Respekt intends to explain and to give its views on the events in the Czech Republic that may be of an interest for the public abroad aiming to understand this country.

New Czech Government: The Big Ones Go to the Small Ones

2. 7. 2010 15:00 - Kateřina Šafaříková

The incoming Czech government has finally taken shape and the unveiling of the Cabinet team this week took the domestic media by surprise. Since this will be the government with the strongest support in parliament's lower house in the modern history of the Czech Republic - and therefore has the... …

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Czech Snapshots

15. 4. 2010 17:38 - Kateřina Šafaříková

"Is that the guy who called the US recovery plan the 'road to hell' and was spotted naked at Silvio Berlusconi's villa?" asked a former Portuguese colleague of mine from Brussels the other day, when he learned that Mirek Topolánek had resigned as party leader. And that is exactly how the... …

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No Eligibility Without Responsibility

4. 3. 2010 16:58 - Kateřina Šafaříková

Czech politics needs its own version of the Boston Tea Party …

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Back stroke in Prague

14. 1. 2010 13:21 - Kateřina Šafaříková

Prague´s public transport faces series of cuts. Dopravni podnik hl. m. Prahy (DPP) – the city´s transit company – lacks resources and Prague´s counsellors have decided that the way how to cut down expenses and reduce loss is to curb down a service for some 1,3 milion of inhabitans of... …

A perfect day

17. 11. 2009 14:32 - Kateřina Šafaříková

Here we go, the day that brought freedom to the Czechs is twenty years old today. Celebration and festivities have started with many public figures assessing what went wrong and what went right since the fall of communism in this country and elsewhere. When one goes through the speeches of various... …

Hello Prague, I´m the President of the EU

3. 11. 2009 11:06 - Kateřina Šafaříková

During the last EU summit, all the Czech media – Respekt including – frenzied about Vaclav Klaus´demand for the opt-out from the Charter of fundamental rights. Quite understandable though since a) it was the Czech president who asked for it and b) the Brussels gathering was the venue to grant him... …

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Milan Kundera’s Denunciation, part two

22. 10. 2009 15:00 - Kateřina Šafaříková

A year ago, Respekt published a story about Milan Kundera, a famous Czech-born writer, having denounced in 1950s an agent of Western security services who was then arrested and sentenced to 14 years in prison. The article aroused criticism from many Czech and international intellectuals. The main... …

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A Plan to stop Mr Klaus

19. 10. 2009 18:00 - Kateřina Šafaříková

So is the time ripe for Vaclav Klaus, the Czech president, to be given the special EU label of PDO or PGI (protected designation of origin and protected geographical indication respectively)? Look into tourist guidebooks and you will bump into a mystic Prague, the Pilsner beer you just can´t beat... …

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