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The Reference Frame (Free subscription) | yesterday
... if it is not approved, most deputies in the Parliament actually voted to approve it. President Klaus has a different opinion and needless to say, your humble correspondent agrees with every word: Dear Mr Chairman [Miroslav Vlček, the spokesman of the lower chamber of the Czech Parliament], I am using my competence described in the article 50 of the Constitution of the Czech Republic and...
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A Pint of Unionist Lite (Free subscription) | yesterday
... more than a passing interest in the politics of the region), it was the Czechs and specifically Vaclav Klaus (today the country's President) who basically manipulated the Slovaks splitting away; as the journalist Theodore Draper wrote: "It was as if Meciar pounded on Klaus's door without really wanting to knock it down; to Meciar's surprise, Klaus opened the door and...
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Religion Clause (Free subscription) | yesterday
CeskeNoviny reports today that Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus has vetoed a broad anti-discrimination law designed to assure equal access to education, work, health care and social advantages. The law would ban discrimination on the basis of religion, as well as on the basis of numerous other grounds (age, race, nationality, sexual orientation, health handicap, sex, and world outlook)....
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
When Czech President Vaclav Klaus and Prague's mayor, Pavel Bem, took against Jan Kaplicky's national library scheme and Milan Kníák, director of the National Gallery, queried its position in the city centre, another debate was started and "some nice people started a petition which 12,000 people signed," says Kaplicky, "and, how shall I put this, some were of a certain calibre, it was...
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The Reference Frame (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
The visitor number 2,222,222 was Google searching for Václav Klaus and the second hit after Wikipedia that he or she was offered was an interview with the Czech president . See 89 more articles about Václav Klaus on this blog. The visitor from XS4ALL.NL in Roosendaal , Noord-Brabant, the Netherlands used Windows 2000 with Internet Explorer 6.0 and JavaScript 1.3. Chances...
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The Reference Frame (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
... of CO2 contributes to the temperature by a nonzero amount and I was happy to hear that Václav Klaus, the Czech president, has made valuable contributions to the climate debate in the Czech Republic. And he has said many other sane things, too. Too bad that e.g. RealClimate.ORG has no one who is as moderate as the official of the Czech Greenpeace. ;-) A small photo gallery...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
... withstanding this latest no-confidence vote, the coalition could have its candidate for president, Vaclav Klaus, confirmed for a second term.
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JunkScience.com Blog (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
Klaus receives another environmentalist anti-prize By ČTK / Published 28 April 2008 Brno, April 25 (CTK) - Czech President Vaclav Klaus Friday received the Green Pearl 2007, an anti-prize the environmentalists annually award for the worst anti-environment statement. Klaus owes his prize to his interview with the daily Hospodarske noviny in which he said "I can't [...]
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Global Security (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
... deployed on Czech soil. The document has yet to be ratified by parliament and signed by President Vaclav Klaus. Opinion polls also indicate that a majority of Czechs are opposed to the U.S. radar being deployed on Czech territory. There is also considerable opposition to the deployment plan in the Czech parliament, with the leading opposition force, the Social Democratic Party, demanding...
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The Reference Frame (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
... is not a terribly important topic of the Czech environmentalists. Even though Czech President Václav Klaus was nominated for his crusade against the global warming religion (and his book about the blue planet in green chains in particular) - and also Ms Kateřina Neumannová, a ski champion who transferred tons of snow from mountains to the Prague Castle was a hot candidate -, the winner...
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Choice Cuts (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
I’d hate to think of myself as being anti-intellectual, but Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic certainly is, and I have to admit that I agree with most of his views . On intellectuals and their role in the West – "They prefer ideas which give them jobs and income and which enhance their power and prestige. They therefore look for ideas which enhance the role of the state because...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
... Republic. The proposal was initiated by Topolanek's right-wing Civic Democrats. Czech President Vaclav Klaus, who founded the party, is a treaty critic, but has pledged not to block its ratification. EU leaders - including Topolanek - signed the treaty last December in a bid to streamline decision-making in the expanded 27-member bloc. The treaty has passed parliaments in 11 EU countries:...
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The Reference Frame (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
Wat wordt bedreigd? Het klimaat of de vrijheid? For all of our Dutch friends: the Dutch language has joined Czech and German . Buy for EUR 19.95 from Quantes.NL Czech president's book, The Blue Planet in Green Chains (or The Blue, Not Green Planet ), has been published in Dutch, too. Václav Klaus will sign copies of the book on Monday 4/21 in the building of Selexyz the publisher, The...
