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The Czechs cheer for GMOs, America's mission closer to accomplished
Last week, the Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic released a document, supporting the farm production of genetically modified crops. This is a small win for US business interests, specifically the biotech lobby. The paper...
Tags: CzechRepublic, EU, Europe, EuropeanUnion, environment, food, gm, gmo, geneticallymodifiedcrops, Monsanto, US, UnitedStates, WTO
"Enough is Enough:" 3,000 demonstrate against neo-nazism
In 14 cities across the Czech Republic, about 3,000 people took to the streets to protest neo-nazism and racism today in an event entitled "Enough is Enough." The demonstrators gathered to say no to the rising wave of extremism and to show solidarity...
Tags: Roma, Gypsies, Gipsies, Romarights, Czech Republic, CzechRepublic, Europe, racism, neo-nazism, extremism, extreme right-wing
Racism, discrimination of minorities widespread in Europe, especially the Czech Republic
Last week, a report based on yet the most comprehensive survey of ethnic minorities living in Europe conducted concluded that "the majority experience racism and discrimination on a day-to-day basis," with the Roma and Africans at the highest risk. In...
Tags: Czech Republic, CzechRepublic, Roma, discrimination, racism, European Union, EU, EuropeanUnion, minorities
The Czechs: Xenophobic?
According to a March survey by the Public Opinion Research Centre of the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences, more than half of Czechs feel there are too many foreigners living in the Czech Republic and nearly a fifth believe that the country...
Tags: Czech Republic, CzechRepublic, xenophobia, immigration, immigrants, foreigners, labor, refugees
The Gender Gap, Here And There
Metro, a Prague daily, reported last week that Czech women earn, on average, 22% less than their male counterparts with the same jobs. However, the gap widens for women between the ages of 35 and 44, who earn 40 percent less than men in identical professions. ...
Tags: CzechRepublic, labor, women
The Young And The Restless Speak Their Minds
The organization People In Need, together with the consultancy and research firm Millward Brown, conducted and just published the results of a survey, One World in Schools, of the attitudes of young people in the Czech Republic. Last week, in the magazine...
Tags: CzechRepublic, youth, students, generationY
Organic Farming On An Upward Trend In The Czech Republic
Last year, the number of organic food producers in the Czech Republic grew from 169 to 422. Organically farmed land now takes up about 350.000 ha, which equals more than 8 percent of total farm land. That's more than a 20 percent increase from 2007. Read...
Tags: CzechRepublic, organicfarming, organics, agriculture
the winds of change
As reported in the business daily E15 yesterday, the amount of wind power produced in the Czech Republic doubled from 2007 to 2008. That is excellent news. In 2008, wind-generated energy supplied approximately 170,000 people with power. Still, wind...
Tags: Czech Republic, CzechRepublic, greenenergy, renewableresources, windpower
Hooters: the dis-ease spreads to the Czech lands
It's official. The papers report Hooters will be opening up restaurants in the Czech Republic. The brief paragraph in one a business daily today described Hooters as a restaurant with a "beach kind of atmosphere." How about telling it...
Tags: CzechRepublic, feminism, sexism, UScorporations
live for today, forget tomorrow: the state begins gutting social security
Last June, as part of a sweeping state finance reform, the Czech government approved a new tax cut for employers and employees alike. As a result, employers are able to divert less of their revenue toward the state social security fund. Employees'...
Tags: CzechRepublic, privatization, IMF, socialsecurity
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