Czech Republic

  • Jul 18, 2008
  • 7 min read

CEE: Slovakia's euro adoption has knock-on effect

The final approval this month for Slovakia to adopt the single currency has put euro adoption...

Slovakia
  • Jul 16, 2008
  • 2 min read

RUSSIA/CZECH REPUBLIC: Excuses for oil cut vary

Russian oil pipeline monopoly Transneft announced yesterday that crude would be supplied in full...

Czech Republic
  • Jul 11, 2008
  • 2 min read

CEE: Currency appreciation erodes competitiveness

Over the first five months, Slovak exports rose by 14.1% year-on-year to 647 billion koruny (34...

  • Jul 9, 2008
  • 2 min read

CZECH REPUBLIC/US/RUSSIA: Prague signs missile pact

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg signed a...

Czech Republic
  • Jun 26, 2008
  • 2 min read

CZECH REPUBLIC: Pension age rises gradually to 65

The Chamber of Deputies yesterday approved by 95 votes to 91 a bill raising the pension age...

Czech Republic
  • Jun 24, 2008
  • 2 min read

CZECH REPUBLIC: CMKOS stages anti-reform strikes

About 30,000 health workers began a one-day strike this morning in protest against reforms.

Czech Republic
  • Jun 20, 2008
  • 2 min read

EU/CZECH REPUBLIC: Prague is next Lisbon obstacle

Dublin wants until the next Council meeting in October to analyse the referendum rejecting the...

Czech Republic
  • Jun 16, 2008
  • 6 min read

EASTERN EUROPE: Smoking remains socially acceptable

While levels of tobacco addiction have declined in Western Europe in recent years, the problem...

Eastern Europe