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Václav Klaus

Type: Person

Name: Václav Klaus (Vaclav Klaus)

Title: President

Organization: Czech Republic

Date of Birth: 19/06/1941

Place of Birth: Vinohrady district of Prague

Nationality: Czech Republic

Fact Sheet: Biography for Vaclav Klaus

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

Zuzana Roithová

Group of Czech Jewish Holocaust survivors meets in Israel

Criminal police have said that four of eight members of a gang arrested last Thursday for suspected involvement in the ‘methanol affair’, wanted to defraud the state of some 200 million crowns in unpaid taxes. According to the head of the anti-organised ... [Published Radio Prague - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Václav Klaus, Prague, Zuzana Roithová

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

Czech Social Democratic Party

PM: TOP 09's Prague destructive policy may continue on gov't level

Prague, May 23 (CTK) - The unseating of Bohuslav Svoboda (Civic Democrats, ODS) as Prague mayor yesterday was a wrong step showing the coalition TOP 09's trend of politicking, it was backed by its national leadership and similar steps may occur on the ... [Published Prague Monitor - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Prague, TOP09, Czech Social Democratic Party, Petr Nečas

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Václav Klaus

Jack Strayer: Angelina Jolie to the rescue

By Jack StrayerOn Tuesday, May 14, 2013, while the media focused simultaneously on White House cascading scandals, one person was able to bravely rise above the political chaos and that was Angelina Jolie.That same morning, the New York Times published ... [Published Edwardsburg Argus - May 23 2013]

Entities: Václav Klaus, Angelina Jolie, Straggler

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Czech president forced into climbdown after overstepping his powers

Czech President Milos Zeman has been forced into an embarrassing climbdown in his fight over the boundaries of his post, as he agreed on May 22 to drop his opposition to the appointment of a professorship to a staunch critic and gay activist.Zeman's use ... [Published Business New Europe - May 23 2013]

Entities: Milos Zeman, Gay, Appointed, Czech Social Democratic Party

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

International Monetary Fund

HN: Zeman is a better economist than Klaus

Prague, May 22 (CTK) - 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 (HN) yesterday ... [Published Prague Monitor - May 23 2013]

Entities: Milos Zeman, Václav Klaus, Canalize, International Monetary Fund

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Roman Catholic Church

Zeman uses Putna case to ally with Catholic Church, Slovak press reports

Bratislava, May 21 (CTK) - 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 ... [Published Prague Monitor - May 22 2013]

Entities: Milos Zeman, Roman Catholic Church, Václav Klaus

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Andrew Duff

VIDEO: Debate on EU fundamental rights

The need for an appendix - or protocol - to the Lisbon Treaty to limit the impact of the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights has been questioned by MEPs.Speaking during a short debate on 20 May 2013, British Liberal Democrat MEP Andrew Duff said that circumstances ... [Published BBC - May 22 2013]

Entities: Andrew Duff, Václav Klaus, European Union, Oldrich Vlasák, Lisbon Treaty

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Zeman says he has stronger mandate thanks to direct election

He indicated that the situation of a directly elected president was very different from that of his predecessors elected by lawmakers, Vaclav Havel and Vaclav Klaus.Zeman was inaugurated in March. As president he has had a dispute with Foreign Minister ... [Published Ceskenoviny - May 20 2013]

Entities: Karel Schwarzenberg, Prague, Elections, Appointed

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

LN: President must appoint professors under law

Prague, May 20 (CTK) - The Czech president must appoint professors proposed by universities under the university law unlike the naming of ambassadors and judges, which is among the presidential powers embedded in the constitution, lawyer Pavel Hasenkopf ... [Published Prague Monitor - May 21 2013]

Entities: judges, Countersign, Appointed, Václav Klaus

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Právo: President names ambassador to Bhutan

Prague, May 20 (CTK) - President Milos Zeman signed the naming of the Czech ambassador to Bhutan as an accommodating step in his dispute with Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg (TOP 09) over the appointment of heads of diplomatic missions abroad, daily ... [Published Prague Monitor - May 21 2013]

Entities: Karel Schwarzenberg, Milos Zeman, Hynek Kmonicek, Bhutan

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Zeman wants talks with university head to discuss objections to academic

Prague, May 19 (CTK) - Czech President Milos Zeman is awaiting the heralded letter from Charles University (UK) rector Vaclav Hampl about literary historian and critic Martin C. Putna, 44, and when he receives it he will ask him for a meeting, Zeman's ... [Published Prague Monitor - May 20 2013]

Entities: Milos Zeman, Václav Hampl, Prague, Petr Nečas

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Czech president continues push to expand his role

Deepening the increasingly bitter debate he has kicked off, Czech President Milos Zeman stuck another flag in the ground in his fight to expand the power of his post on May 17 when he blocked an academic appointment, while refusing to offer any reason ... [Published Business New Europe - May 20 2013]

Entities: Milos Zeman, Martin Putna, Václav Hampl, Bohuslav Sobotka, Czech Social Democratic Party

Quotes

"this was a strange coalition structure from the beginning" Klaus said, adding that the coalition was extremely fragile and its fall could have been expected

PM: TOP 09's Prague destructive policy may continue on gov't level [Published Prague Monitor - 10 hours ago]

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Group of Czech Jewish Holocaust survivors meets... [Published Radio Prague - 2 hours ago]
PM: TOP 09's Prague destructive policy may cont... [Published Prague Monitor - 10 hours ago]
Jack Strayer: Angelina Jolie to the rescue [Published Edwardsburg Argus - May 23 2013]
Czech president forced into climbdown after ove... [Published Business New Europe - May 23 2013]
HN: Zeman must be kept in check [Published Prague Monitor - May 23 2013]
HN: Zeman is a better economist than Klaus [Published Prague Monitor - May 23 2013]
VIDEO: Debate on EU fundamental rights [Published BBC - May 22 2013]
Zeman uses Putna case to ally with Catholic Chu... [Published Prague Monitor - May 22 2013]
LN: President must appoint professors under law [Published Prague Monitor - May 21 2013]
Právo: President names ambassador to Bhutan [Published Prague Monitor - May 21 2013]
Zeman says he has stronger mandate thanks to di... [Published Ceskenoviny - May 20 2013]
Czech president continues push to expand his role [Published Business New Europe - May 20 2013]
President Zeman refuses to name one of his crit... [Published Prague Monitor - May 20 2013]
Zeman wants talks with university head to discu... [Published Prague Monitor - May 20 2013]
ČEZ expects losses resulting from Romania limit... [Published Radio Prague - May 17 2013]
Senate nods to court fees exemption over Klaus'... [Published Prague Monitor - May 17 2013]
Honorary chairman of Czech Social Democrats Kom... [Published Ceskenoviny - May 16 2013]
Valtr Komárek: 1930-2013 [Published The Reference Frame - May 16 2013]
Dispute over St Vitus Cathedral in Prague may r... [Published Prague Monitor - May 16 2013]
President Zeman to visit Poland in late May [Published Prague Monitor - May 15 2013]
Slovak ex-PM: Czechoslovakia's split was politi... [Published Prague Monitor - May 15 2013]
Can the EU be saved? [Published Chicago Tribune - May 15 2013]
Czech President Milos Zeman to visit Poland in ... [Published Ceskenoviny - May 14 2013]
Respekt: Zeman may become strongest Czech indiv... [Published Prague Monitor - May 14 2013]
Corruption universal but corruption tourism uni... [Published Radio Prague - May 13 2013]
Verfassungsgericht weist Beschwerde gegen Direk... [Published Radio Prague - May 11 2013]
Zeman supports more Russian investments [Published Prague Monitor - May 10 2013]
Human Rights and a Geopolitical Tug of War in B... [Published Jamestown Foundation - May 10 2013]
Student Agency drivers arrested in Norway for d... [Published Radio Prague - May 09 2013]
Exhibition honoring Sir Nicholas Winton to open... [Published Radio Prague - May 08 2013]

Blogs

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Valtr Komárek: 1930-2013 [Published The Reference Frame - May 16 2013] Valtr Komárek died today ( Fox News ). He was one of the key minds behind the Velvet Revolution, in some sense a senior collaborator of the current Czech president and the previous one, and a left-wing politician whom I respected – and be sure they ...
New Czech president attacks EU regulation [Published The Reference Frame - Apr 27 2013] A way to summarize why I have been decided for quite some time to vote for Miloš Zeman as Václav Klaus' successor is to say that among the candidates who had a significant chance, he was the most right-wing one. He was the clearest for of the green ...
Czechs don't belong in a federal Europe, and Vá... [Published News » Politics - Apr 26 2013] They're tremendously like us, the Czechs, though I'm not quite sure why. Most of the Continental Europeans who resemble us in temperament – the Scandinavians, the northern Germans and, obviously, the Dutch – are linked to us by geography and history. ...
SaxoBank CEO: "We Must Re-Evaluate The European... [Published Zero Hedge - Apr 23 2013] Submitted by Lars Seier Christensen, CEO SaxoBank via his blog ,I have been interested in politics since I was a kid. That is why I remember Denmark’s European Economic Community (EEC) referendum, although I was only nine years old. Election nights were ...
SaxoBank CEO: "We Must Re-Evaluate The European... [Published Zero Hedge - Apr 23 2013] Submitted by Lars Seier Christensen, CEO SaxoBank via his blog , I have been interested in politics since I was a kid. That is why I remember Denmark’s European Economic Community (EEC) referendum, although I was only nine years old. Election nights ...

Audio/Video

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Political Fallout from Czech Prisoner Pardon [Published WSJ.com Video - News - Jan 10 2013]

Press Releases

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Czech President Vaclav Klaus to Speak on the Eu... [Published PR Newswire - Sep 24 2012]