Vaclav Klaus News

All major Czech dailies today comment on the resignation of Prime Minister Petr Necas over the scandal of his closest aide Jana Nagyova who has been arrested over suspected tasking of a secret service and bribing of former ODS lawmakers.

Milos Zeman s first 100 days in his capacity as Czech head of state were marked with his effort at the strongest possible role of the president, political scientist Tomas Lebeda, from Palacky University in Olomouc, north Moravia, has told CTK.

In his speech at the first session of Althingi President A'lafur Ragnar GrA msson said that in Europe "there is really not much in interest in finishing the agreement on Iceland's application for membership of the European Union .

The Liberec district court today imposed a six-month prison sentence suspended for 12 months on Pavel Vondrous over his airsoft gun attack on former president Vaclav Klaus at a public event in north Bohemia in 2012.

It's been 20 years since Czechoslovakia split apart. The divorce took place without violence and without a referendum.

The Czech government Civic Democratic Party cannot continue working without a change of its leader, that si Prime Minister Petr Necas, ex-president and former ODS head Vaclav Klaus said in an interview for the Prima Family TV yesterday.

The Czech Foreign Ministry wants to partially resolve the dispute over some new ambassadors by sending them abroad temporarily on a lower diplomatic level that does not require President Milos Zeman s signature, spokeswoman Johana Grohova told CTK today.

Vaclav Klaus, who ended as president in March, wants to become the leader of the Czech right wing once again, also motivated by the magnificent political comeback of Milos Zeman who replaced him as the head of state, Lukas Jelinek writes in daily Pravo Friday.

Milos Zeman has made fewer domestic and foreign trips than his predecessors in the first four months following his election, and, compared with them, he tended to provoke and dispute for powers on the Czech scene, daily Mlada fronta Dnes writes today.

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.