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WEBEconomist: rigidity and outdated policies stifle Czechia's labor market. Labor market conditions in Czechia have deteriorated for the third year and are now the tenth worst in the EU, primarily due to low flexibility and gender pay disparities.
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WEB26 July, 2014: climber Radek Jaroš becomes first Czech to scale all peaks over 8,000 metres. On this day, Czech mountaineer Radek Jaroš climbed the world's second-highest mountain, K2, and thus completed the ascent of all 14 of …
Minister slams judge in Kuřim abuse case - Radio Prague …
WEB06/23/2008. Play / pause. Minister slams judge in Kuřim abuse case. Length of audio 3:32. Klára Mauerová, mother of Ondřej and Jakub, photo: CTK. Few cases have been more shocking or sickening than the Kuřim child abuse case which went to trial last week. Since it began new headlines and explicit details have followed daily, describing how ...
Josef Gočár: pioneer of Czech Cubist, Rondocubist architecture, …
WEBMar 13, 2020 · This Friday marks 140 years since the birth of the pioneering Czech architect and designer Josef Gočár. His legacy includes iconic works in a range of styles, most famously The House of the Black Madonna, in a Cubist tradition inspired by Picasso, and the “national” Rondocubist Legiobanka, born of independent Czechoslovakia.
A quick history of the Czech language. - Radio Prague International
WEBJan 1, 1998 · Czech culture blossomed under the 14th century emperor, Charles IV, but faced turbulent times with the Hussite wars that came soon afterwards. With the onset of rule by the Austrian Habsburg dynasty, Czech went into decline as a written language, with German becoming the language of the elite. Czech remained the language of …
Alexander Dubček: hope and despair in 1968 - Radio Prague …
WEBJan 22, 2009 · Alexander Dubček: hope and despair in 1968. Length of audio 4:18. Alexander Dubček and Margita Kollarová. The political reforms of the 1960s accelerated dramatically when on January 5 1968 Alexander Dubček became First Secretary of the Communist Party, the most powerful position in the country. Dubček immediately set Czechoslovakia on a ...
Czechs are predominantly descendants of pre-Slavic populations, …
WEBJul 26, 2019 · The mythical story of father Čech leading his tribe to the top of Říp hill and announcing that the untouched surroundings are the new homeland of his kin is an iconic national origin tale still taught in Czech elementary schools.
Prague loses distinctive diplomat with departure of UK’s Jan …
WEBJan 4, 2018 · Prague loses distinctive diplomat with departure of UK’s Jan Thompson. Great Britain’s ambassador to Prague Jan Thompson steps down on Friday after four and a half years in the post. Ambassador Thompson has cut a distinctive figure in the city, winning over many people with her informal approach, classic Škoda car and, most recently, a hit ...
March 15, 1939 – The day Czechoslovakia ceased to exist
WEBMar 15, 2019 · Eighty years ago today, on March 15 1939, Hitler gave Czechoslovak President Emil Hácha a stark choice: accept becoming a protectorate or face destruction. After Hácha reluctantly agreed to give up his country’s independence the German army started moving in. It was the beginning of six long years of occupation.
March 25, 1945 – the day the Americans bombed Prague …
WEBMar 25, 2020 · On February 14, 1945 US aviators, thinking they were above Dresden, carpet-bombed large parts of Prague. The attack left around 700 dead and hundreds of buildings destroyed or heavily damaged. Milena Šotolová was nine in 1945 and lived near the Emmaus Monastery, one of the most notable victims of …