politics

Statue of mayor

Funny gifts for local politicians. From citizens with love

by Michal Kašpárek on 01/17/2012

Mayor was given a statue for his birthday, rich ball attendees were fed bread and salt… A new form of civic disobedience has been blooming in Brno: tongue-in-cheek confessions of love and gratitude. Read now →

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Humpolíček

Local politicians: “f*ck activism, f*ck law, f*ck decency”

October 16, 2011

Please, help: Do you have similar experiences with local politicians in your hometown? Have you overcome them? How?

Blockade of a neo-nazi march

Neo-nazi May day parade to be blocked by “common people” for the first time in the history of Brno

April 27, 2011

If you want to join the crowd of several hundred people who don’t feel comfortable seeing neo-nazis marching the streets, check out the official web page of “Brno blokuje” (Brno impedes) initiative, translated to English, German and Polish.

2010 town council election

Social and civic democrats to form a local government with Mr Onderka as the mayor

October 18, 2010

The town of Brno has a new council. Social democrats have 19 seats, civic democrats (ODS) 14, TOP 09 9, christian democrats 6, communists 4 and greens 3.

Proposed look of the new main station.

New, relocated main station: postponed until 2014

September 6, 2010

The plan of building a new main station got a blow that may be fatal.

Sono centrum

Prominent local politicians put in custody

February 15, 2010

Kvapil was arrested minutes after he received a bribe of CZK 1,000,000 (€39,000).

theatre 7 a půl

Brno won’t be the European capital of culture, wanna be the capital of basketball instead

June 24, 2009

This is what you get when you elect rednecks to a town council.

5 big (and silly) problems of Brno

March 9, 2009

Face it: there are several quite unique problems that damage the image of Brno.