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Prague, Feb 20 (CTK) - Jiri Dienstbier, Czech opposition Social Democrat (CSSD) senator, yesterday said he is afraid of a well-thought-out plan aimed to stop positive changes in courts and state attorney's offices and linked with Vlastimil Rampula's retu
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Prague, Feb 20 (CTK) - Czech President Vaclav Klaus signed yesterday a new Civic Code, that is to take effect in 2014 and that adjusts family and inheritance law, among others, his spokesman Radim Ochvat has announced. Klaus also signed a bill on busines
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Prague, Feb 17 (CTK) - Czech President Vaclav Klaus Friday signed the constitutional law introducing a direct election of Czech president, his spokesman Radim Ochvat told CTK. The relevant amendment to the constitution, proposed by the government and pas
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Prague, Feb 18 (CTK) - About twenty people met outside the Prague Archbishop's palace yesterday to protest against political activities of the archbishop, Dominik Duka, one of the 22 dignitaries whom the Pope created cardinals in the Vatican's St Peter's
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On his recent trip to Edinburgh, David Cameron has promised to devolve even more power from Westminster to the Scottish Parliament - if only the Scots reject outright independence in the planned referendum. While Cameron’s attachment to the Anglo-Scottis
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PRAGUE -- Czech and Slovak presidents have strongly supported Serbia and Croatia's EU integration at a meeting on Saturday. The four presidents are seen after the meeting (Tanjug) They also added that Serbia's further European pathway must not be conditi
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(LANY) - The presidents of the Czech Republic and Slovakia on Saturday backed Serbia's bid to become an EU member, saying its recognition of an independent Kosovo must not be the only criterion for its candidacy. "The EU can't fix (Kosovo) as the only co
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As anticipated by LEAP/E2020, the fear largely fed by the City of London and Wall Street of a Eurozone break-up over the Greek debt crisis proved unfounded. Euroland has come out of this violently conflictual episode with its "natural allies" much reinfo
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PRAGUE -- Serbian, Croatian and Slovak Presidents Boris Tadić, Ivo Josipović and Ivan Gaparovič will meet with their Czech counterpart Vaclav Klaus on Saturday. It is expected that the main topics of the talks will be Serbia and Croatias EU integration p
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What I’m running away from is writing. But it’s more than that. I’m running away from the public, from politics, from people. Perhaps I’m even running away from the woman who saved my life. Above all, I’m probably running away from myself. I am constantl
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After the “Climategate” scandal – revealing data manipulation and fraud by top global warming proponents – many climate change skeptics trumpeted victory, assuming perhaps that efforts to pass radical environmental taxes and regulations had lost their st
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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 counterpar
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Prague, Feb 13 (CTK) - The way EU subsidies have been wasted in the Czech Republic makes one worry about the current Czech government's raison d'etre and the aims it strives for, Lubos Palata writes in daily Lidove noviny (LN) yesterday in reaction to Pr
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Prague, 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 th
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Prague, 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 ta
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Prague, 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 release
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The 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 el
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Prague, 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 sen
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Prague, Feb 8 (CTK) - The Senate, the upper house of Czech parliament, yesterday passed an amendment to the constitution that introduces direct election of Czech president. As a result, Vaclav Klaus's successor will be elected by people, not by parliamen
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