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The Social Democrats are against the idea of the Czech Republic increasing the number of its troops in Afghanistan, CSSD shadow foreign minister Lubomir Zaoralek said today, adding that Prague should discuss the further strategy in Afghanistan more with its allies.

Michael Simmons: Year of revolutions: The ambivalence in the Czech Republic today is a far cry from the unanimity and euphoria of the days of the Velvet Revolution Saturday, 07 November 2009 Twenty years on, in Prague, the de facto capital of central Europe, there is no shortage of the bewilderment and disorientation that is apparent in the other ...

Prime Minister Jan Fischer will take the Lisbon treaty to Rome next Friday, whereby the ratification process by the Czech Republic will be completed, government sources told CTK today.

After its first unification in 1871, Germany saw itself as "surrounded by enemies", against which it unleashed two world wars in the 20th century.

Czech and German NGOs plan to focus on the victims of violent hate crime Prague, 6.11.2009, 11:11, Several Czech and German NGOs involved in the "Hate Crime - " Forgotten Victims" project plan to map the situation of victims of violent hate crime in the Czech Republic.

Czech Neo-Nazis planned terrorist attacks, abductions of police Prague, 6.11.2009, 08:08, The neo-Nazi organization White Justice has been preparing terrorist attacks and planning abductions of police officers and "highly positioned Jews" in the Czech Republic, the daily MladA fronta Dnes reports.

When the Czech President Vaclav Klaus finally bowed to overwhelming pressure on Tuesday and signed the Lisbon Treaty, he remarked with great sadness that his country was giving up its sovereignty.

Czech President Vaclav Klaus Thursday met U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden in the White House and they mostly discussed the U.S. plan for a new missile defence architecture, Martin Erva, who accompanies Klaus during his visit to the United States, told CTK.

The world's first international "darkness reserve" was declared in the Jizerske hory mountains along the Czech-Polish border by six institutions Wednesday, Pavel Suchan, from the Astronomic Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, told CTK.

The Sumava National Park administration is no longer opposed to the building of a sort of cableway between Nova Pec, south Bohemia, and the Hochficht ski complex in Austria after 13 years of negotiations, journalists were told today.

Unfortunately, the Czech Constitutional Court's decisions on both complaints that senators lodged against the Lisbon treaty evidently reflect the judges' belief that the treaty's ratification is necessary as Prague owes it to the EU, Daniel Kaiser writes in daily Lidove noviny today.

A few U.S. delegations will visit the Czech Republic in November, following up the recent visit by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, including an expert military team that arrives in Prague this Friday, diplomatic sources told CTK today.

The Czech Social Democrats will want the agreed Czech opt-out from the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights approved by an EU summit to only relate to property rights if they win the elections next year, party leader Jiri Paroubek said in a press release Saturday.

Date : Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:22:37 +0400 CZECH PRESIDENT SIGNED EUROPEAN UNION'S LISBON TREATY PanARMENIAN.Net 03.11.2009 21:35 GMT+04:00 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Czech President Vaclav Klaus has signed the European Union's Lisbon Treaty, the final step in its ratification.

Czech Culture Minister Vaclav Riedlbauch Friday started the 11th Czech and German Culture Days that are held on both sides of the Saxony-Czech Euroregion Elbe/Labe. The next 16 days will offer concerts, films, theatre performances, literary readings, exhibitions and lectures.

Representatives Markey & Hastings & Senator Inhofe, as well as many experts from both sides of the climate change policy, discuss and debate at a Washington Briefing convened by The Washington Times WASHINGTON, Nov.

The daily Pravo today discusses whether Prague is right when it says the Czech opt-out from the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights means legal security for Czechs, or whether the Slovaks are right when asserting that without an opt-out they fully enjoy the advantages offered by the Charter.

Roma not the only victims of violent hate crimes in the Czech Republic Prague, 3.11.2009, 14:02, The Roma are just one of many groups of minorities in the Czech Republic targeted by violent hate crimes, but many victims never turn to the police because they have no faith in them or in other institutions.

Situated in the heart of Europe, the Czech Republic has a rich history. The years of totalitarian domination and economic difficulties culminated in the Prague Spring of 1968.

David Cameron is to tell the British people that a Conservative government will not give them a referendum on the European Union's Lisbon Treaty.