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  • Cardinal Duka accused of covering up case of sexual abuse
    Cardinal Dominik Duka is facing a criminal investigation, after being
    accused of covering up a case of sexual abuse in the Dominican Order. The
    victim, who remains anonymous, told the news site seznam.cz earlier this
    week that he reported the abuse to Mr.Duka but the cardinal had failed to
    take action against it.
    4 min
  • Pension tension: Czechs living longer, but not in good health
    Czechs are living longer, but many do not live well in retirement – in
    terms of both their physical and financial well-being. With the population
    rapidly aging, the nation’s already low level of “life expectancy in
    health” is set to further decline. The Czech government has asked the
    OECD to help determine how best to make the pension system sustainable.
    Experts say changing seniors’ dietary and lifestyle habits is a key part
    of the solution.
    4 min
  • NYT chief Mark Thompson: Political pressure is causing some reversion to type in CEE public media
    Public service media in Central Europe reflect growing populism in the
    region but are not the cause of it. That’s the view of New York Times CEO
    Mark Thompson, who was recently in Prague. Thompson shared his views on the
    media landscape in this region with Czech Radio’s Lenka Kabrhelová –
    and also explained a move to end Czech language broadcasting while he was
    director-general of the BBC.
    4 min
  • Plzeň (Bohemia) students celebrate Pilsen’s (Chicago) Czech – and Mexican – heritage
    Chicago has been a major centre of Czech immigration to the United States
    since the 1850s. Today, the district of Pilsen which those settlers founded
    in the 19th century is decidedly Bohemian – in the sense of being offbeat
    and arty – but predominately Mexican. In celebration of the two cultures,
    students from the original Plzeň have installed street murals in its
    namesake sister city, depicting Czech history and culture – with a Latino
    flair.
    4 min
  • Central Bohemian regional council concludes PM does not have conflict of interest
    The Regional Council of Central Bohemia has halted an infringement
    procedure against Prime Minister Andrej Babiš on the grounds of a
    complaint regarding a possible conflict of interest. The regional council
    has thus invalidated a decision by the Černošice Council, the
    municipality where the prime minister lives, which arrived at the opposite
    conclusion and fined the prime minister for the offense.
    4 min
  • The feminist legacy of Charlotte and Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
    In the first of this series we heard the voice of Czechoslovakia’s first
    President, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk. His wife Charlotte was American, and
    thanks to her influence Tomáš became a champion of feminism. Charlotte
    went on to inspire many women both within Czechoslovakia and beyond and in
    this programme we hear some of them, speaking in their own words from the
    Czech Radio archive.
    16 min
  • Cleaner Jaroslava Dušková, a representative of Czechia’s impoverished class
    An in-depth survey commissioned by Czech Radio suggests that Czech society
    is divided into six social classes that differ in terms of resources and
    status. The study defines two types of upper middle class, the wealthy and
    emerging cosmopolitan, three types of lower middle class and an
    impoverished class. Czech Radio found a typical representative of each
    social class. Jaroslava Dušková, a cleaner on a disability pension, is a
    representative of the impoverished class.
    4 min

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