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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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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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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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