Vaclav Klaus
This file photo taken on January 3, 2011 shows Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas (L) and his wife Radka Necasova at the start of their meeting with former Czech President Vaclav Klaus and his wife Livia (R) in Lany Chateau. Czech police arrested the top aide of Prime Minister Petr Necas and several politicians with links to his centre-right party in a late night anti-corruption raid Wednesday. Jana Nagyova, an aide who heads Necas's office is suspected of directing the alleged illegal surveillance. The CTK news agency quoted Nagyova's lawyer as saying the alleged targets of illegal spying included Necas' estranged wife Radka.
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Thatcher was one of the greatest politicians of our time. In the Czech Republic she was our hero.
Her voice is also missing in today's discussion on European integration ... Many of us will never forget her famous speech in Bruges, where she clearly said that the suppression of nation states and concentration of power in Brussels will destroy Europe.
What we wanted after the fall of Communism was to introduce individual freedom, free markets ... We tried to fight against the expanding state, against government regulation of all kinds. And in this respect those are Margaret Thatcher’s slogans. And her politics. So we were very happy with the fact that she supported always our changes, our reforms and I’m afraid that no one in Europe understood our efforts as well as Margaret Thatcher.More quotes »
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Geert Wilders: “The EU Stands for Everything That is Wrong in Europe”
Soviet Politburo and Brussels to Moscow before the fall of the Iron Curtain. Two weeks ago, I went to Prague and met with Vaclav Klaus, the former President of the Czech Republic. President Klaus speaks of Europeanism as one of the new and dangerous ideologies from 1389 Blog Read more »
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MfD: Judge deserves praise for sober view on "shooting" at Klaus
- Czech judge Lukas Korpas deserves ovations for his sober assessment of the airsoft gun shooting at then president Vaclav Klaus, as neither the indignant Klaus nor the angry radical assailant heard him qualify the event as an attempted murder, Jana Blazkova from Prague Daily Monitor Read more »
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Klaus shooter gets suspended sentence
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. Vondrous faced up to six years in prison if he were convicted of violence from Prague Daily Monitor Read more »
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Czech man punished for attack on president
court in the northern city of Liberec. The incident happened on September 28 in the northern town of Chrastava, where President Vaclav Klaus was opening a new bridge. Vondrous opened fire from close range, while the president's bodyguards failed to immediately from The Courier Mail Read more »
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Klaus: ODS cannot continue without leadership change
told CTK, hinting at the current floods due to which his cabinet meets tonight. "It has not been for the first time that Vaclav Klaus is criticising the government and me and I do not share his criticism without indicating any real solution," Necas said. Copyright from Prague Daily Monitor Read more »
