Questions tagged [czech-republic]
For questions about the Czech Republic, the country in Central Europe, also known as Czechia.
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Was a Czech president ever successful in having a legislation proposal dropped after his veto or threat thereof?
The Czech constitution gives the President a veto power on legislation, but this can be overridden by 50% (+1 I assume) of the absolute number of parliamentarians, which may be slightly difficult in ...
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Why is there so much attention towards the Czech President even though it's supposed to be a figurehead position?
This question is the opposite of Why do we hear so little about the German President?
In theory, the Czech President is mostly a figurehead as Czechia is a Parliamentary Republic where the Prime ...
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How are the Polish, Czech and Slovenian PMs going to travel to Kyiv without getting harmed?
Czech, Polish, Slovenian PMs visiting Kyiv to meet Zelenskiy
How do the Czech/Polish/Slovenian PMs know their transport isn't going to be attacked? They are after all going through a war zone.
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Is it better to vote for underdog or second candidate in order to lower the top candidate chances?
In Czech Republic there will be parliament elections soon.
There are two major coalitions which have similar chance of winning (lets call them A and B). I prefer the B wins, even though I don't align ...
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What is the significance of Ukrainian and Belarusian flags on anti-Zeman protest rally in Prague?
On 30 April 2021, thousands of Czechs have rallied in Prague against President Milos Zeman, calling for his removal from office and condemning what opponents say are his pro-Russia views.
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Why did Russia target the Czech republic? [closed]
Czech Republic–Russia relations
(...) the Czech intelligence agencies had concluded that Russian military intelligence officers, namely members of Russian military intelligence GRU's unit 29155, were ...
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Why does the Czech government need EU permission to change the way vaccines are administered?
According to the Twitter of Andrej Babiš (Czech prime minister):
This evening I have asked the EC President @vonderleyen
to explore and approve together with @EMA_News
as soon as possible the ...
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Was the death of the President of the Czech Senate a theme in the Taiwanese media?
See also connected question: How anticipated was visit of President of the Czech Senate in Taiwan?
As I am stating there, President of the Czech Senate Jaroslav Kubera was supposed to go on an ...
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How anticipated was visit of President of the Czech Senate in Taiwan?
Recently passed away president of the Senate of the Czech Republic Jaroslav Kubera was supposed to go to Taiwan this year to an official visit.
According to the Czech media (for example, XXXI edition ...
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What is the deal with national birds across European countries?
Yesterday congress of Czech second-biggest political party ODS took place.
On one of the vice-chairman positions were elected Alexandr Vondra. In his candidate speech, he mentioned that from all ...
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Is the Czech president (negatively) known in other neighbouring countries?
In the Czech Republic lots of people don't like the Czech president Milos Zeman because of numerous cases in which he did things that seem to be very shameful.
I wonder if it's true that he is a ...
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