Politics

This section includes reports, analysis and opinion about elections, public participation and political parties.

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30th June 2016 / Politics / Elections


Radio Praha: Challenge for V4 to avoid ending on periphery of changing EU, says Harvard’s Grzegorz Ekiert

Grzegorz Ekiert is director of the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. An expert on democratisation, the Polish-born political scientist recently gave a talk at Prague’s Václav Havel Library exploring the unraveling of the pro-European consensus in the Visegrad states and the major challenges facing the region.  
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18th June 2016 / Politics / Elections


OECD Regions at a Glance 2016: Czech regions get high scores for education, low for housing, income, civic engagement, health

Recently published OECD Regions at a Glance report says that all the Czech regions rank among the top 20% of the OECD regions in the areas of education (share of labour force with at least a secondary degree), with Prague in the top 5%. The country has large regional disparities in access to services, jobs, and community, the latter being the third largest regional gap among OECD countries.
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17th May 2016 / Politics / Elections


AmCham Policy Report: Issue 5 - May 17: US Presidential Elections: Trumped and grumpy

It became clear early that the 2016 Presidential election was to be a contest pitting Donald Trump against the Republican Party and the Democratic establishment led by Hillary Clinton against another outsider promising to renew the ideals of progressive government.  
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Members of the American Chamber of Commerce in the Czech Republic