Vaclav Klaus News

Former Czech President Vaclav Klaus's effort to push through an opt-out from the Lisbon Treaty was unfortunate and this is why the European Parliament's negative stance on it is logical, Czech MEP Zuzana Brzobohata said yesterday.

Whatever people may think about President Milos Zeman, he has always been a better economist than his predecessor Vaclav Klaus and stood closer to reality than him, Jan Machacek writes in daily Hospodarske noviny yesterday.

New President Milos Zeman takes over the alliance with the Czech Catholic Church that his predecessor Vaclav Klaus started, Slovak daily Sme writes yesterday about Zeman's refusal to appoint Catholic homosexual intellectual Martin C. Putna a professor.

Valtr Komarek, honorary chairman of the opposition Czech Social Democrats , one of the major protagonists of the communist regime's fall in 1989, died after a long illness aged 82 today, the server iDnes.cz has said, referring to his son Martin Komarek.

Czech president Milos Zeman had to prop himself up against a wall at a public event, struggling to negotiate a step and being aided by a cardinal.

To view Czech President Milos Zeman as a politician having problems with stability would be a mistake since he is as firm as a rock about what he wants, and this is power, Erik Tabery writes in weekly Respekt out Monday and says if Zeman succeeds, he will be the strongest person in 25 years.

A face-to-face meeting of Czech lawyers Zdenek Koudelka and Pavel Hasenkopf over who drafted the text of the controversial New Year presidential amnesty, which Justice Minister Pavel Blazek staged in the presence of journalists today, was cancelled early as Hasenkopf did not turn up.

The Prague appeals High Court has upheld the January decision halting the prosecution of businessmen Tomas Pitr and Miroslav Provod over alleged tax delicts from 1994 based on former president Vaclav Klaus's amnesty, according to information on the judiciary's website.

The Euro sculpture is seen in front of the European Central Bank headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, on 04 August 2011.

Lawyer Pavel Hasenkopf, legal adviser to former Czech president Vaclav Klaus, passed on the evidence on the authorship of the New Year presidential amnesty to the office of current President Milos Zeman to possibly publish it, Hasenkopf told Czech Television yesterday.

Speculations about the real authorship of the Czech presidential amnesty, declared by Vaclav Klaus on January 1 shortly before his term expired, are really incomprehensible, Josef Koukal writes in daily Pravo today.

The New Year amnesty declared by former Czech president Vaclav Klaus, that caused a general outrage, was drafted by the Justice Ministry, Pavel Hasenkopf, an aide to the Presidential Office, told the servers Tyden.cz, iDnes.cz and IHNED Tuesday.

Former Czech president Vaclav Klaus would like his wife Livia Klausova "very much" to become Czech ambassador to Slovakia, Klaus told journalists after meeting Prague Archbishop Dominik Duka today.

The Czech Justice Ministry Monday announced its decision to scrap the ongoing tender for the supply of e-bracelets for monitoring convicts in home arrest as the supply may be excessive in view of the real number of convicts, and it will put up a new tender by June, Stepanka Cechova said.

Vaclav Klaus was the first in 1992 to propose Czechoslovakia's split into two independent republics, first Slovak president Michal Kovac told Monday's issue of Mlada fronta Dnes .

Czech President Milos Zeman will pay a visit to Germany soon during which he will make a keynote speech on Czech foreign policy, Hynek Kmonicek, head of the Presidential Office foreign policy section, told CTK Friday, without announcing any date.

Former Czech president Vaclav Klaus s assistants Ladislav Jakl and Petr Hajek and lawyer Pavel Hasenkopf were the real authors of the controversial presidential amnesty, Vratislav Mynar, head of the office of President Milos Zeman, told today s issue of daily Pravo.

When Czech President Milos Zeman said last week his country could join the euro by 2018, he met with little more than a shrug from the country's other political leaders who have shied away from setting a date.

Czech judges and state attorneys halted the criminal prosecution of 757 people in 415 cases by the end of March, based on the amnesty that president Vaclav Klaus declared on New Year's Day, Supreme State Attorney's Office spokeswoman Helena Markusova told CTK yesterday.

The new Czech President Milos Zeman has not only had the EU flag hoisted at Prague Castle but he has also made further statements and steps to change his Eurosceptic predecessor's policy and steer the Czech Republic back to the European mainstream, Jiri Pehe writes in daily Pravo yesterday.