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The Czech Centres, which promote Czech culture around the globe, have a new director general. Jitka Pánek Jurková, who for some years headed the Czech Centre in Brussels, says her priorities will include using the arts to promote values and tailoring the network’s activities to individual countries.
There are now more than two dozen Czech Centres on four continents around the world. The network, which comes under the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is tasked with promoting various aspects of Czech culture.
Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský outlines what he regards as the value of the soft power organisation, which is analogous to British Councils or Germany’s Goethe Institutes.
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