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A total of 3400 Canadian visas for Czechs have been issued for two and a half months since Canada re-introduced visa requirements for Czech citizens, the Canadian embassy in Prague told CTK yesterday, adding that a large majority of applications - 99 percent - were approved.

At the beginning, the European integration process was a positive idea. Opening up, liberalizing trade, removing barriers and borders of individual countries, allowing free movement not only of goods and services, but of people, ideas and culture too.But then it turned into something else during the 1980's and especially in 1991 with the so-called ...

Parities discussed a wide range of issues on developing political dialogue and trade relations and boosting investments within international organizations.

Two Czech soldiers were suspended along with their commander Monday after the soldiers were seen wearing Nazi insignia on their helmets while serving with the NATO-led force in Afghanistan.

Czech politicians based in Prague, seen here, have spoken out against Ottawa's new visa restrictions.

President Vaclav Klaus has signed the agreements with the U.S. and Australia that bind air carriers from EU countries to transfer data on passengers to U.S. and Australian authorities, the Presidential Office told CTK Wednesday.

Czech-language anti-Roma group on Facebook: Hardcore racism Prague, 9.11.2009, 17:05, A Czech-language group instigating hatred against the Roma and calling for their extermination was created several days ago on the Facebook social networking site.

The expected sentencing this week of a Connecticut investor for conspiring to bribe foreign government officials highlights an emerging area of concern for directors and officers liability insurers and policyholders, observers say.

Caretaker Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer has indirectly turned down an offer by two major Czech political parties to become the Czech Republic 's nominee for the European Commission.

The President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, today signed the Treaty of Lisbon paving the way for the Treaty to come into effect.

One of Czech President Vaclav Klaus's goals may be to have the Czech Republic regain its lost sovereignty, for example by its departure from the EU, Petr Hajek, deputy head of the Presidential Office, said on Prima TV Wednesday.

The planned construction of the longest railway tunnel in Central Europe, a 25-km-long corridor through the Brdy hills from Prague, is threatened as the project has little chance of being subsidised from the EU funds, the daily Hospodarske noviny writes Friday.

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.