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28th January 2014 / Politics /

Politics: Obama delivered his fifth SOTU address

In his fifth State of the Union address, President Obama announced plan to sign an executive order raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour for future federal contract workers. He advocated similar proposal last year. However, it never passed through opposition in Congress. On Tuesday he pledged t...

24th January 2014 / Politics /

Politics: Foreign Affairs Council meeting of 20 January

On 20 January, a Foreign Affairs Council meeting was held in Brussels. The foreign affairs ministers of the Member States under the presidency of High Representative Baroness Ashton discussed a number of important international issues. Firstly, after having received a report by the International At...

20th January 2014 / Politics / Macroeconomic Indicators, Economic Growth

Politics: PM: Euro to be adopted in 2020

The Prime Minister Jiří Rusnok announced his conviction of adopting the common European currency by the end of the year 2020. He made such conviction not only as the PM (nearly terminated, though), but also as a candidate to the Bank Board of the Czech National Bank; the President Miloš Zeman announ...