Czech Republic: Lower House passes minorities law

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Czech Republic: Lower House passes minorities law



Copyright (c) 2001 Radio Prague (Vysilani do zahranici CRo)

News: 24.05.2001

By: Nick Carey

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Lower House passes minorities law
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The Lower House of Parliament has passed a new law on ethnic
minorities, with the support all parties bar the main opposition Civic
Democratic Party, which opposes the law, and the Communist Party,
which abstained. According to Deputy Prime Minister Pavel Rychetsky,
the new law provides a proper structure for the institutions that help
minorities, allows for the use of minority languages for some official
documents, and means that signposts and street names in ethnic
minority communities will become bilingual. The opposition Civic
Democrats say the law is unnecessary as they believe it will make
racial cohabitation more complicated in the Czech Republic.

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