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...Trial Of Bureaucracy In the land of Kafka, one small village is fighting back against ubiquitous, omnipotent bureaucracy. Provoked by a steep rise in paperwork in recent years, the Bohemian hamlet of Jindrichovice pod Smrkem (pop. 630) has declared itself out of bounds to all uninvited employees of the Czech central government and its various subsidiaries. Signs at entrances to the village and its train station depict the crossed-out pictogram of a civil servant...
...bear the legend attention bureaucrats!!! entry forbidden. Mayor Petr Pávek imposed the ban Sept. 12 after he found his staff of three spending as much as 80% of their working hours complying with countless (and he says "nonsensical") requests for information from the Czech Statistical Office and other state bureaus. "It drains our resources and doesn't leave enough time for work in the community," he says. In addition to the ban, he plans to charge an hourly rate for compliance with requests that he deems nonessential to the functioning of his community. Pávek's initiative...
Tomas Klvana will focus on the media’s role in the recovery of civic society in the Czech Republic. He recently served as spokesperson and policy adviser to Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus, and has also been deputy editor-in-chief of a leading Czech daily newspaper and a professor at the University of South Maine...
...described the Czech Republic’s transition from Communism as a “painful process...
...called his new role a “welcome relief” in comparison to his work for the president of the Czech Republic...