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The topic “Russia and Ukraine” is occupying the world media for nearly six months. Since July 2014, it has even escalated after imposing trade sanctions by Russia. The country prohibits imports of fruits,...
September 15, 2014 7:38 am / no comments
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People love rankings. They are clear and easily understandable. One such ranking is regularly published by a consulting company named Mercer. It refers to the cost of living for foreigners in 211 cities in the world....
September 13, 2014 11:31 am / no comments
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Some steps of the Czech government, leaded by social democrat Bohuslav Sobotka, are strange. It is like to paint a house with white color, and then repaint it with black to secure it is not too white. It is like to...
September 11, 2014 9:55 am / no comments
Two think-tanks, The Centre for Economic and Market Analyses (CZ) and F. A. Hayek Foundation (SK) joined to write a study about chosen EU regulations and their impact on economies of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The text was presented to...
March 11, 2014 10:41 am / 8 comments
In this text published few days ago: “How can state destroy a market easily? Like this!“, I wrote about a brand new regulation imposed on distilling industry in the Czech Republic. It is obvious one can find a lot of similar examples...
February 25, 2014 3:20 pm / 8 comments
The energy policy of EU, especially its continuing support of renewables, has been rather hot topic in the past few years, with the chief reason being its impact on the electricity prices not only in the Czech Republic but other member states...
February 25, 2014 12:08 pm / 2 comments
Behind media massage about double lavatories in the Winter Olympics Areal in Sochi, in absolute shadow of political negotiations about new government and unsurprising information about secret meetings of politicians and businessmen in the Czech...
February 25, 2014 12:00 pm / 2 comments
Oil is world’s number one energy source and it is also a complementary good for utterly everything that we can buy. This is the reason why an oil price increase could be reflected in rising prices of all goods.
It is intriguing to observe...
December 9, 2013 11:43 pm / no comments
At the last weekend of October, Parliament elections were held in the Czech Republic. Before the elections, my colleague Ales Rod explained in this article the background leading to these early elections and commented on the then not very optimistic...
December 9, 2013 11:28 pm / 3 comments
The short answer is no; it has become even worse. A few months ago I outlined some figures describing the abysmal attendance of members (deputies) of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic[1] during committee sessions...
December 7, 2013 4:28 pm / 1 comment