{"id":334,"date":"2007-02-05T07:56:01","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T06:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=334"},"modified":"2007-02-05T07:56:01","modified_gmt":"2007-02-05T06:56:01","slug":"forgotten-world-61-czech-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=334","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten world (61): Czech Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 12 occasions now, I&#8217;ve had a week-long feature on NightHawk devoted to parts of the world that tend to be under-reported or even forgotten. You can check out the previous 60 entries <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/ForgottenWorld.html\">here<\/a>. This week, I am going to run an 13th series of postings on this theme.<br \/>\nFrom the 16th century onwards, what was then called Bohemia increasingly came under the control of the Hapsburg, Austrian and Austro-Hungarian Empires. Between 1918-1993, the territory was the western two-thirds of Czechoslovakia. Following  the split from Slovakia in January 1993, it became the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Czech_republic\">Czech Republic<\/a>  &#8211; a new state of 10M &#8211; and entered the European Union in May 2004.<br \/>\nOne of the most stable and prosperous of the post-Communist states, the Czech Republic has been recovering from recession since mid-1999. Growth has been led by exports to the EU, especially Germany, and foreign investment, while domestic demand is reviving.<br \/>\nHowever, like all the post-Communist states, poiltics has been both fractured and fractious. For six months after the General Election of June 2006, it was not possible to form a government that could win a majority vote in the 200-seat Chamber of Deputies, although the three-party, centre-right coalition narrowly won a vote of confidence in parliament in January 2007.<br \/>\nMy wife is half Czech and I&#8217;ve visited the country no less than 20 times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 12 occasions now, I&#8217;ve had a week-long feature on NightHawk devoted to parts of the world that tend to be under-reported or even forgotten. You can check out the previous 60 entries here. This week, I am going to run an 13th series of postings on this theme. From the 16th century onwards, what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}