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  • 1990: Mr Havel goes to Washington
    Thirty years ago on this day, February 21, then Czechoslovak president
    Václav Havel addressed a specially convened joint session of the United
    States Congress. Only a few months earlier, Havel was in prison.
    Paradoxically, he devoted much of his historic speech that day appealing to
    Washington to help – not Czechoslovakia but the Soviet Union. Doing so,
    he said, was the best hope to ensure newfound freedoms.
    5 min
  • Czechs and Brexit Britain: Part 2 – New business opportunities
    Britain is currently the Czech Republic’s fifth largest export market and
    a successful conclusion to post-Brexit trade negotiations is therefore a
    top priority for Czech diplomats. However, Czechs are also trying to tap in
    to new business opportunities in the UK and the British government’s
    promises to invest in its northern infrastructure and hospitals have been
    identified as potential new avenues for exports.
    9 min
  • Helping children in Cambodia get a pre-school education
    In addition to the Czech Republic financing developing aid projects around
    the world, the network of Czech embassies provides aid in small-scale local
    projects. The Czech Embassy in Cambodia recently joined forces with the
    Japanese Embassy and the French Development Agency to fund a local project
    in which two community kindergartens were built in the villages of Trapeing
    Chrab and Beung Preah. The kindergartens, with complementary
    infrastructure, were handed over to the locals late last year and are now
    attended by close to 70 children under the age of six. I spoke to Lucie
    Chudá, a diplomat at the Czech Embassy in Phnom Penh, who took part in the
    endeavor and began by asking how such projects are chosen.
    9 min
  • Financial expert on EU summit: The Czech Republic should have been prepared for a cut in funds
    The change of course in EU financing being discussed at the summit in
    Brussels, may see future funds allotted to the Czech Republic cut by 24
    percent and moreover tied to new priority areas such as climate change and
    innovation. How would such a shift impact the Czech Republic, which insists
    that its main investment priority is still road and rail infrastructure? I
    put the question to Ondřej Houska, a financial expert with the leading
    Czech daily Hospodářské noviny, who is following developments in
    Brussels.
    5 min
  • Czech prime minister ready to put up a fight for cohesion funds in Brussels
    Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš left for a key EU summit in Brussels,
    which is to shape the alliances’ finances in the coming years, in a
    fighting spirit. The Czech Republic, a member of the Friends of Cohesion
    group, faces a 24 percent cut in funds and will vehemently oppose the EU
    proposal to channel the bulk of a much smaller EU budget into new
    priorities, such as climate and innovation.
    4 min

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