In her country and beyond, she is well known as a journalist, writer and activist. She has published six books, has 130,000 followers on Facebook, and more than 4,000 on Twitter. How does she apply all this previous experience in her diplomatic work? Why does she think Bosnian-Czech relations have great potential? We have talked to Martina Mlinarević Sopta, who is Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Czech Republic since January 2020.
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Kenssy Dwi Ekaningsih has been Indonesia's ambassador to Prague since June 2019. The Czech Republic is in fact her second diplomatic mission outside the ASEAN region. Although more than half of her current term has been impacted by the covid-19 pandemic, the Embassy under her leadership is very active and busy organising and supporting business and cultural events. Still, Ambassador Kenssy believes that when the pandemic is over, the two countries will be able to further build on the already close relations. The strength of Czech-Indonesian cooperation is also evidenced by the number of Czech companies who are already active in Indonesia.
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In 1920, thirty years old Karel Čapek, an emerging literary star of the newborn Czechoslovakia, was thinking about a new play for the National Theater in Prague. Its heroes would be "artificial workers" or "living and intelligent working machines". When he racked brains how to name them, first he came up with Labors. However, he was not entirely satisfied. He shared his doubts with his older brother. Josef Čapek was a respected painter, they had already written a few things together, so Karel often took his advice. "'Name them Robots,' the painter muttered with a brush in his mouth and continued to paint. "And that was it," Karel Čapek himself later described it.
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Despite the pandemic, Česká zbrojovka Group has big goals. The company wants to become a world leader in the production of small arms and reach sales figures of one billion euros by the end of 2025. It is a realistic goal, though, as the combined sales of CZG and Colt already exceed half a billion euros. The company has managed to keep its production running thanks to strict anti-epidemic measures, introduced in mid-March last year. Although some initial transport issues occurred last spring, as global trade was taken by surprise by the pandemic, the company has since managed to steady its exports as well.
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You could say that ophthalmology runs in Adam Janek’s blood since his father is a distinguished eye surgeon. It is also through him that he is half Slovak. Knowing that, it is not surprising that five years ago, on top of acting as a director of Eye Centre Prague for ten years, he also accepted the challenge of applying the know-how of the leading Czech private clinic in Slovakia, that is in Trenčín Eye Centre Sokolík, when the ownership structures of the two clinics met. This interview is taking place at the time of “round” anniversaries being celebrated in both renowned institutions, twenty years in Prague and ten in Trenčín. Long enough to test the foundations they are built on – and both institutions have passed the test of time victoriously. Normally, we would have therefore begun by asking their mutual director about the greatest accomplishments experienced throughout these years. However, in light of today’s difficult pandemic times, we began our talk with related issues and obstacles.
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Miklós Boros sees himself as an essential Central European: he has worked in the diplomatic service in the region for all his life. "We share a common history and culture, and that’s also what we can build on to further develop relations within Central Europe," he notes, adding that there has been an increasing tendency to jointly represent the V4 countries’ interests. "Looking at various indicators, Czechia is a great country to live and do business in, so it is a great honour for me to work on improving Czech-Hungarian relations just here,“ says Mr. Boros, who has been the Ambassador of Hungary to the Czech Republic since 2017.
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