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01/08/2008
Czech President Václav Klaus said on Tuesday he was more pro-European than anyone else. He added, however that being pro-European didn’t mean “to stand to attention whenever Brussels gives the order”. Klaus made these remarks at a meeting with the chairman of the Senate Přemysl Sobotka. President Klaus said he intended to meet Senators from all the different parties. He also didn’t rule out the possibility of meeting with Communist Party deputies, whose votes helped him win the presidential elections five years ago.
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01/08/2008
The Office of the President remains the most trustworthy public institution in the Czech Republic, eliciting the trust of 66 percent of Czechs, according to a poll conducted by the CVVM agency last December. In comparison, the Czech government was trusted by 27 percent of citizens. Parliament elicited the lowest public trust with only 21 percent of respondents considering the Chamber of Deputies trustworthy and 25 percent trusting the Senate.
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01/08/2008
Czechs might be able to travel to the United States without a visa as of next year, Minister Alexandr Vondra said on Monday following US-Czech talks on the issue. Mr Vondra told the daily Hospodářské noviny that he expected US president George W. Bush to personally intervene in this matter during Prime Minister Topolánek’s visit to the United States in February.
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01/08/2008
The Czech pop icon Karel Gott married his long-term partner, 32-year old Ivana Macháčková, in Las Vegas on Monday. The newly-wed couple also confirmed that they were expecting their second child; their daughter Charlotte Ella was born in April 2006. The sixty-eight year old singer already has two daughters from previous relationships, but he has never been married before.
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01/08/2008
The Prague Stock Exchange has reached agreement with the country’s national broadcaster Czech public television on the terms under which it could broadcast live from the stock exchange building, Hospodářské noviny reported. The move is to attract more small-time investors to the market. At present the share of small-time clients in the Exchange's overall trade is about twenty percent, but their number is gradually increasing. Starting in February, the stock exchange news will run twice a day on the ČT24 news channel.
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01/07/2008
On a one-day working visit to Vienna, Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek on Monday met for talks with his Austrian counterpart Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer. The cabinet leaders discussed a number of outstanding issues in Czech-Austrian relations, including the enlargement of the Schengen zone of free travel and the safety of the Czech nuclear power plant in Temelín, South Bohemia. They agreed on the need to intensify police cooperation in the border regions in order to curb illegal migration and protect citizens on both sides of the border. Mr Topolánek denied reports which have appeared in the Austrian press that the Czech Republic is planning to expand the Temelín nuclear plant. The Czech PM also said that the Czech government would continue negotiating with the Austrian arms producer Steyr on the delivery of armoured vehicles for the Czech Army which was cancelled in December.
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01/07/2008
Milena Vícenová became the new Czech ambassador to the European Union on Monday. Her main task will consist in preparing the Czech presidency of the European Union that will begin in January 2009. Ms Vícenová, the former agriculture minister in the first cabinet of PM Mirek Topolánek is replacing Jan Kohout at the head of the Czech mission in Brussels. Mr Kohout became a new deputy Foreign Minister several days ago.
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01/07/2008
Presidential candidate Jan Švejnar will launch his election campaign on Wednesday, roughly a month before the election. The Czech-born, US-based economist, nominated by the opposition Social Democrats and the coalition Greens, is currently the only other candidate to run against the incumbent Václav Klaus. Mr Švejnar will begin his tour of the Czech Republic in Zlín, central Moravia, before visiting other towns and cities to hold public rallies as well as meetings with local MPs and senators. In the Czech constitutional system, the successful candidate needs a majority of votes in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies consisting of 281 lawmakers.
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01/07/2008
The Czech Communist Party is considering a new strategy for the presidential election to be held in February, the daily Hospodářské noviny reported on Monday. In the race between the incumbent Václav Klaus and the only other candidate, the US-based Czech-born economist Jan Švejnar, communist MPs and senators might support neither of the of the two in the first round and bring in their own candidate for the second. With the current composition of the lower and upper houses of Parliament, both candidates are competing for the 29 communist votes that might prove decisive in the ballot.
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01/07/2008
The Czech National Bank is ready to react to any sharp movements of the Czech currency rate, the bank’s governor Zdeněk Tůma told Financial Times Deutschland on Monday. He told the paper that the Czech National Bank would intervene if the Czech currency rate wavers too much. The changing rate of the Czech crown could have a negative impact on inflation which increased to a six-year maximum in November last year. The Czech crown has been strengthening since the beginning of the year and reached the rate of 26.1 crowns to the euro. This enables the National Bank to increase interest rates more slowly while the main interest rate is now set at 3.5 percent, the lowest of all European Union countries.
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