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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><atom:link href="https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AOaIepuFuZI/ladka-m-bauerova.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Disillusionment Is Sweeping Eastern Europe]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cronyism, populism and general suspicion of power have made former communist Europe look increasingly unpredictable.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-22/europe-has-a-problem-in-russia-s-old-stomping-ground</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-22/europe-has-a-problem-in-russia-s-old-stomping-ground</guid><category><![CDATA[politics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Marek Strzelecki]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2018 15:56:09 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i3UdNYFe5QQU/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i3UdNYFe5QQU/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>People take part in a rally near the Slovak National Uprising (SNP) square under the slogan &quot;For a Decent Slovakia&quot;, against corruption and to pay tribute to murdered Slovak journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kusnirova on March 16, 2018 in Bratislava, Slovakia.Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets across Slovakia on Friday to call for snap elections, saying the premier&apos;s resignation was not enough to fix what they see as a corrupt government. / AFP PHOTO / VLADIMIR SIMICEK (Photo credit should read VLADIMIR SIMICEK/AFP/Getty Images)</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Czech Tycoon Earmarks $1.2 Billion to Buy Europe's Old Coal]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-15/czech-tycoon-earmarks-1-2-billion-to-buy-europe-s-old-coal</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-15/czech-tycoon-earmarks-1-2-billion-to-buy-europe-s-old-coal</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ladka Mortkowitz Bauerova]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2018 07:30:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Murder and Protests Rock a Small European Nation]]></title><description><![CDATA[An outcry over alleged corruption following a shocking double murder has set Slovakia on course for early elections.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-13/murder-and-protests-rock-a-small-european-nation</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-13/murder-and-protests-rock-a-small-european-nation</guid><category><![CDATA[politics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrea Dudik]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2018 05:01:11 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iUSZjwncYs4A/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iUSZjwncYs4A/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Protesters in Bratislava on March 9. Photographer: JOE KLAMAR/AFP</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Geopolitical Dispute Causing European Kitchen Clocks to Fall Six Minutes Behind]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-09/how-two-balkan-rivals-are-messing-with-europe-s-sense-of-time</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-09/how-two-balkan-rivals-are-messing-with-europe-s-sense-of-time</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ladka Mortkowitz Bauerova]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2018 09:48:22 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iLiYGqlKpdGA/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iLiYGqlKpdGA/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Pylon towers carry electrical power lines across land in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. is building new electricity stations to end the power cuts that were imposed for about 100 days last year, curbing growth in Africa&apos;s most-industrialized nation. Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Czech Social Democrats Mull Cabinet Talks After Changing Leader]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-18/czech-social-democrats-leader-pick-favors-government-with-babis</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-18/czech-social-democrats-leader-pick-favors-government-with-babis</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ladka Mortkowitz Bauerova]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2018 19:20:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rolls-Royce Says Its First Baby Reactor Can Be Ready by 2030]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-16/rolls-royce-says-its-first-baby-reactor-can-be-ready-by-2030</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-16/rolls-royce-says-its-first-baby-reactor-can-be-ready-by-2030</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ladka Mortkowitz Bauerova]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2018 13:53:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business Warns Referendum Law Debate May Lead to Possible Czexit]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-13/companies-warn-referendum-law-debate-raises-specter-of-czexit</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-13/companies-warn-referendum-law-debate-raises-specter-of-czexit</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ladka Mortkowitz Bauerova]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2018 13:48:07 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iNSnaDT2XWuU/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iNSnaDT2XWuU/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>The church of Our Lady Before Tyn, center, and Prague cathedral, right, stand on the city skyline in Prague, Czech Republic, on Monday, May 27, 2013. Photographer: Martin Divisek</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[East Europe's Power Champion Offers Spinoff to Fund Reactors]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-31/east-europe-s-power-champion-proposes-spinoff-to-fund-reactors</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-31/east-europe-s-power-champion-proposes-spinoff-to-fund-reactors</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ladka Mortkowitz Bauerova]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 20:36:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coal Snared in Headwind as Traders Flee $300 Billion Market]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-31/coal-snared-in-headwind-as-traders-abandon-300-billion-market</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-31/coal-snared-in-headwind-as-traders-abandon-300-billion-market</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ladka Mortkowitz Bauerova]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:01:00 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iboaT5_ZNUmg/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iboaT5_ZNUmg/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Snow falls on coal sitting in a freight wagon ahead of shipping at the dressing mill at the Sibir coal processing plant operated by OAO Mechel Mining, a unit of OAO Mechel, near Myski, Kemerovo region, Russia, on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015. The company, which employs about 70,000 people, is included in a list of about 200 \&quot;systemically important\&quot; enterprises that Russia said it may support under a government plan to stabilize the economy. Photographer: Andrey Rudakov</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Czech President Wins New Term in Boon to Euroskeptic Forces]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-28/czech-president-wins-second-term-in-boon-to-euroskeptic-forces</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-28/czech-president-wins-second-term-in-boon-to-euroskeptic-forces</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Laca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2018 23:00:01 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iMJ9C8jP5jjg/v2/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iMJ9C8jP5jjg/v2/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Milos Zeman celebrate his election victory on Jan. 27. Photographer: Radek Mica/AFP via Getty Images</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Putin Ally Zeman Wins Second Term as Czech President]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-27/putin-s-czech-ally-leads-early-count-after-presidential-ballot</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-27/putin-s-czech-ally-leads-early-count-after-presidential-ballot</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ladka Mortkowitz Bauerova]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jan 2018 14:06:31 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iApKFFDV5_CY/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iApKFFDV5_CY/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Milos Zeman, Czech president, speaks during an interview in Chyse, Czech Republic, on Wednesday, March 9, 2016. Zeman will name at least one new member to the central bank&apos;s policy-making board in May from three candidates he&apos;s meeting in the coming weeks, he said.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Czech Parliament Strips Billionaire Premier of His Immunity]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-19/czech-parliament-strips-billionaire-premier-of-his-immunity</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-19/czech-parliament-strips-billionaire-premier-of-his-immunity</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Laca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2018 12:38:09 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iMRNhvtYvnZI/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iMRNhvtYvnZI/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Andrej Babis, billionaire and leader of the ANO party, pauses during an interview in Prague, Czech Republic, on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017. Babis, who is likely to become the next Czech prime minister, wants to expand the countrys nuclear energy capacity without the help of foreign investors.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Czech Cabinet Quits as Tycoon Premier Heads for More Talks]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-16/czech-cabinet-of-billionaire-babis-fails-to-win-confidence-vote</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-16/czech-cabinet-of-billionaire-babis-fails-to-win-confidence-vote</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Laca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2018 15:07:26 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/itnXNwWeqvAg/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/itnXNwWeqvAg/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis delivers his speech during a parliamentary session of the Czech Parliament in Prague on January 16, 2018. Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis on january 16, asked parliament to lift his immunity as he fights allegations of EU subsidy fraud and struggles to win a confidence vote for his populist minority government. Potential coalition partners have snubbed the chemicals, food and media tycoon dubbed the &quot;Czech Trump&quot;, suspicious of his communist past and recent police charges over alleged fraud, which Babis flatly denies. / AFP PHOTO / Michal Cizek (Photo credit should read MICHAL CIZEK/AFP/Getty Images)</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU Toughens Demands on U.K. for Brexit Transition in Draft]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-16/eu-toughens-demands-on-u-k-for-brexit-transition-ft-reports</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-16/eu-toughens-demands-on-u-k-for-brexit-transition-ft-reports</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Emma Ross-Thomas]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2018 07:26:40 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ikw5cN_tJi74/v243/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ikw5cN_tJi74/v243/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description/></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russia, EU Ties Take Spotlight in Czech Presidential Runoff]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-15/czechs-set-for-presidential-runoff-with-focus-on-russia-eu-ties</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-15/czechs-set-for-presidential-runoff-with-focus-on-russia-eu-ties</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Laca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2018 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/isO1jNid3Njo/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/isO1jNid3Njo/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Milos Zeman, Czech president, arrives for an official ceremony to swear in the country&apos;s new finance minister at Prague Castle in Prague, Czech Republic, on Wednesday, May 24, 2017. Zeman formally dismissed billionaire Finance Minister Andrej Babis and named Ivan Pilny, a former corporate executive and now a lawmaker for Babis’s ANO party, as his replacement. Photographer: Martin Divisek/Bloomberg</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Putin Fan Zeman Heads for Czech Re-Election Runoff Challenge]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-12/czechs-vote-whether-pro-russia-president-zeman-gets-second-term</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-12/czechs-vote-whether-pro-russia-president-zeman-gets-second-term</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Laca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2018 23:00:01 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i4vdr.BmCOhA/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i4vdr.BmCOhA/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Milos Zeman, Czech president, arrives for an official ceremony to swear in the country&apos;s new finance minister at Prague Castle in Prague, Czech Republic, on Wednesday, May 24, 2017.  Photographer: Martin Divisek/Bloomberg</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Czechs Vote on Whether Polarizing President Gets Second Term]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-11/czechs-vote-for-president-with-zeman-favored-in-first-round</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-11/czechs-vote-for-president-with-zeman-favored-in-first-round</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Laca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2018 23:00:01 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i73AjmwEMx5Y/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i73AjmwEMx5Y/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Milos Zeman, Czech president, arrives for an official ceremony to swear in the country&apos;s new finance minister at Prague Castle in Prague, Czech Republic, on Wednesday, May 24, 2017. Zeman formally dismissed billionaire Finance Minister Andrej Babis and named Ivan Pilny, a former corporate executive and now a lawmaker for Babis’s ANO party, as his replacement.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Czech President Vows Continued Backing for Billionaire Prime Minister]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-10/czech-president-vows-continued-backing-for-billionaire-premier</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-10/czech-president-vows-continued-backing-for-billionaire-premier</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Laca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2018 12:50:27 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/irmnX8NZV2zM/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/irmnX8NZV2zM/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Czech President Milos Zeman, left and Prime Minister Andrej Babis </media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coal's Two-Year Rally to End in Europe as China Demand Fades]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-18/coal-s-two-year-rally-to-end-in-europe-as-china-addiction-fades</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-18/coal-s-two-year-rally-to-end-in-europe-as-china-addiction-fades</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ladka Mortkowitz Bauerova]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2017 08:02:41 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iAyBkaCeFnTM/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iAyBkaCeFnTM/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>A Caterpillar Inc. D10T dozer pushes raw coal at the newly opened Ramaco Resources Inc. Stonecoal Alma mine near Wylo, West Virginia, U.S., on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017. From 2008 to 2016 production from West Virginia’s southern coalfields fell from 117 million tons to 36.6 million, now, the trend is reversing. With prices tripling over the last year for metallurgical coal, which is used in steel-making and hard to find elsewhere in North America, through mid-April of this year, coal output rose 9 percent in southern West Virginia compared with a year ago, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coal's Fading Crown to Get Indian Polish as Demand Stagnates]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-18/coal-s-fading-crown-to-get-indian-polish-as-demand-stagnates</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-18/coal-s-fading-crown-to-get-indian-polish-as-demand-stagnates</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ladka Mortkowitz Bauerova]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2017 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>