Pavel Kuchař

We need better economics education. #teachecon

“If this feels like a contradiction, it’s because the concept of real GDP is often misunderstood.” 🙂

The unhappiness ... is partly about a defective overall balance between individual and community, resulting from a hypertrophied individualism. But it is also about the kinds of community that liberals have favoured as against those they have neglected (@fromtga.bsky.social).

The Czech PM represents the governing majority, not the entire population’s opinion. In the 2025 elections, Babiš's party (ANO) won roughly 35% of the vote. While this made them the largest party, nearly two-thirds of voters chose someone else. Macinka received a pathetic 6,5k preferential votes..

Defending democracy in Prague - how one president and a hundred thousand protesters held illiberalism at bay An analysis by Jan Rovny originally published by our partner The Conversation

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Czechs fundraise over $6 million to buy generators for freezing Ukraine Czechs have collected more than $6 million in just five days in a grassroots fundraising effort to buy generators, heaters and batteries for Ukraine, where hundreds of thousands are freezing in subzer...

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Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski just schooled Czech Deputy Prime Minister Petr Macinka into accepting that the European Union operates as a democracy.

Populists have nowhere to hide when met with hard facts.

An extraordinary exchange. Well worth a watch.

Macinka is not CZ, Orban is not Hungary, Fico is not Slovakia, Le Pen is not France, Farage is not the UK…