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Euractiv.cz: Analyst: Euroscepticism among Czechs will stay, even with new president
The roots of Euroscepticism among the Czechs go back 10 or 15 years and if Jiří Drahoš defeats the incumbent President Miloš Zeman in a runoff vote on 26-27 January, he will struggle to reverse the trend, political analyst Lubomír Kopeček told EURACTIV.
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Quo vadis, Czech media?
On January 23, 2018, the AmCham hosted a panel discussion "Quo vadis, Czech media?". with:
Nora Fridrichová from 168 hodin
Filip Rožánek from Marketing & Media
Dalibor Balšínek from Echo 24
Tomáš Jeník from Euro
moderated by AmCham Marketing committee member, Gabriela Bechynská from Mondelez.
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Grayling Political Digest, January 2018
Last weekend, the Czechs decided on the two candidates who would enter the final round of the presidential election, which is scheduled for 26 and 27 January. Apart from the current president Zeman, with a 38.6% share of the vote, and Mr Drahoš, with 26.6%, there was surprisingly strong support for the following three candidates (Fisher, Horáček, and Hilšer). All of them won around 500,000 votes and immediately pledged their support to Mr Drahoš.
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