Vaclav Klaus News

Czechs trust more the government than the president for the first time since the overthrow of the Communist regime in 1989, according to a poll conducted by the CVVM polling institute in early November and released today.

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Czech President Vaclav Klaus said he would like the right to offer real themes from practical politics that interest people who otherwise might listen to extremist parties offering easy, radical and undemocratic solutions, in a letter to the Civic Democratic Party congress Saturday.

The 12th China-EU summit is to be held on November 30 in Nanjing, the capital of east China's Jiangsu province.

The Czech state budget deficit for 2009 will be raised by some 14 billion crowns to 52 billion under a bill the Chamber of Deputies passed last week, which President Vaclav Klaus signed into a law today, Klaus's spokesman Radim Ochvat said.

The anniversaries of the closure of Czech universities by the Nazis after the funeral of student Jan Opletal on November 17, 1939, and the student march that triggered the Velvet Revolution on November 17, 1989, are interconnected, President Vaclav Klaus said today.

Jude You know who else must be baffled, are all the good Democrats and progressives who have been telling us we're 'anti-science' for pointing out this fact.

Joe Klamar's picture of U.S. President Barack Obama speaking in Prague April 4 won the Photo of the Year award at the Czech Press Photo competition.

The ODP campaign, showing President Klaus and the words "Vaclav, we stand behind you," showed up just in time for the anniversary.

In this Nov. 21, 1989, file photo tens of thousands of people crowd around the Czech national monument in Prague during a mass demonstration demanding "svobodne volby" meaning free elections.

With their country in deep political crisis, Czechs took to the streets throughout the country Tuesday to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the end of decades of repressive communist rule.

Czech President Vaclav Klaus signed Friday an amendment that cuts the "constitutional officials'" pay by 4 percent next year and that also provides for a controversial taxation of their allowances, his spokesman Radim Ochvat has told CTK.

The fall of the Czech government during the Czech Republic' EU presidency and the procrastination with the ratification of the EU reform Lisbon treaty were mistakes, Czech-born former U.S. secretary of state Madeleine Albright said in a debate with students in Prague Saturday.

The Czech military's primary goal should be to defend its homeland while foreign missions in which Czech soldiers serve should be the army's additional tasks, President Vaclav Klaus said at a meeting of military commanders today.

The first post-communist decade was a very positive decade. The second is much worse.

Czech President Vaclav Klaus welcomed that the political parties finally reached agreement on the new Czech EU commissioner, choosing current EU Affairs Minister Stefan Fuele today.

Former president Vaclav Havel gave a speech at the European Parliament on Wednesday, and the reception was a marked contrast to that given to his successor Vaclav Klaus earlier this year.

The Vatican/Prague, Nov 11 - The relations between the Czech Republic and the Vatican remain to be burdened by the fact that nearly 20 years after renewing diplomatic relations the two countries have not yet ratified the treaty on their relations.

President Vaclav Klaus assesses mainly the domestic but also foreign developments since the November 1989 collapse of communism in Czechoslovakia in his new book, named Where Tomorrow Begins, which he presented today.

Prague Mayor Pavel Bem was re-elected chairman of the Prague branch of the Civic Democratic Party winning 64 votes against 55 votes cast for his opponent Rudolf Blazek at an ODS conference yesterday, according to the unofficial information CTK has received.