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Turkey has been very patient while enduring the candidate process for European Union membership, the Czech Republic’s president said yesterday.“I wouldn’t be so patient,” President Vaclav Klaus said in a joint press conference with his Turkish...
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It has become a fashion among Czechs to pretend that the Czech Republic does not need EU money and that the EU subsidies have been of no use for the Czechs so far. President Vaclav Klaus, who has been promoting this opinion consistently, has managed to...
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Turkey's President Abdullah Gul, left, and Czech Republic's President Vaclav Klaus inspect a military guard of honour during a welcome ceremony at the Cankaya Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. View Photo »
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I, the government, the Foreign Ministry have tried to intervene somehow. We eventually decided to send deputy (foreign minister Vladimir) Galuska with my personal letter to the Zambian President
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Feb 13 (CTK) - Czech President Vaclav Klaus signed yesterday an amendment tightening the public procurement conditions, his spokesman Radim Ochvat has said. Under it tender winners will have to release their subcontractors who will supply more than 10...
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Feb 13 (CTK) - Czech President Vaclav Klaus signed yesterday private international law legislation setting new rules to cross-border disputes and replacing a 50-year-old legislation, his spokesman Radim Ochvat has announced. The new code is to take...
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Feb 9 (CTK) - Czech President Vaclav Klaus gives respect to the presidential office and fulfils his constitutional duties, but he does not know citizens' problems, according to a poll conducted by the polling institute CVVM in January and released...
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Turkish President Abdullah Gul (2nd R) and his Czech counterpart Vaclav Klaus (R) review an honor guard on February 14, 2012 during an official welcoming ceremony at the Cankaya presidential palace in Ankara. View Photo »
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I disagree with the change to the pension system as stipulated by these bills. I do so based on reasons quite different from those of the opposition, whose MPs prevented any matter-of-fact debate by their obstructions in the lower house
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Senate, which is controlled by the opposition Social Democrats, voted 49-22 on Wednesday in favor of the change. Both the country's presidents since the 1989 Velvet Revolution - the late Vaclav Havel and his political archrival Vaclav Klaus - were...
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Feb 8 (CTK) - The Czech Senate yesterday rejected the candidacy of Prague City Court chairman Jan Svacek who was nominated for a judge of the Constitutional Court (US) by President Vaclav Klaus. Klaus will have to offer a new candidate to the senators. ...
About Vaclav Klaus
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Václav Klaus (pronounced [ˈvaːtslaf ˈklaʊ̯s]; born 19 June 1941) is the second President of the Czech Republic and a former Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (1992 – 1997). He is co-founder of the Civic Democratic Party, one of the Czech Republic's major political parties. Full Article
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Correcting byline Czech President Vaclav Klaus (C) arrives at the St. Vitus Cathedral for the funeral service for former Czech president Vaclav Havel in front of the Castle in Prague on December 23, 2011. Havel, a dissident and playwright who was the hero of the 1989 Velvet Revolution...
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Czech President Vaclav Klaus, center right, speaks during the last farewell to Vaclav Havel, the first president of Czech Republic and the last president of Czechoslovakia, in Vladislav Hall of Prague Castle on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011. Havel's coffin will be displayed at Prague Castle...
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Turkey's President Abdullah Gul, left, and Czech Republic's President Vaclav Klaus inspect a military guard of honour during a welcome ceremony at the Cankaya Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012.
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